Gonzalez want her to retire, too, but Mr. The only other employee is an elderly woman named Miss Trixie, who is desperate to retire. The office is run by a meek man named Mr. He eventually finds a position as a clerk in the office of a textile factory called Levy Pants. Meanwhile, Ignatius resentfully begins his job search. Mancuso suggests that she come bowling with him and his aunt, Santa Battaglia, and Irene agrees.

Patrolman Mancuso visits Irene and comforts her-she is very upset about the car crash and the fact that Ignatius is unemployed, spends all his money at the movies, and does not help her around the house. Irene tells Ignatius that he must go out and find a job to help pay off her fine.

Jones befriends Darlene, who tells him that she wants to become an exotic dancer. Lana will pay him much less than minimum wage, but Jones cannot afford to turn the job down-besides, Lana says she will call the police on him if he tries to quit. Jones finds his way to the Night of Joy and miserably takes an advertised job as porter. Jones is released, too, but told that he must find a job or he will be arrested as a vagrant. The sergeant decides that, from now on, Mancuso must wear a different fancy dress costume to work each day until he apprehends a genuinely suspicious character. Claude is sent home-the sergeant realizes that he was involved in a misunderstanding and blames Patrolman Mancuso. Even though the police know that Jones is not guilty, he is kept in jail. Patrolman Mancuso, who is walking home, comes across the wreck and gives Irene a $1,000 fine.Īt the police station, Claude Robichaux shares a cell with a black man named Burma Jones, who has been framed and arrested for stealing cashew nuts. Irene is very drunk by this time, and as she tries to drive away, she crashes her car. Ignatius and Irene strike up a conversation with the bar girl, Darlene, and a fashionable young man named Dorian Greene, until the proprietor, Lana Lee, returns and throws them out-Ignatius and Irene are not the sort of customers she wants in her bar. They hide in a nearby strip club called the Night of Joy, where they order beers. When Irene exits the shop, she screams at Patrolman Mancuso to arrest Claude-who she claims must have started things-and she and Ignatius escape. Ignatius gets into a fight with Mancuso, and an old man, Claude Robichaux, tries to defend Ignatius.

While Ignatius waits, a policeman- Patrolman Mancuso-approaches and tries to arrest him because he looks suspicious. Ignatius is a medieval scholar who despises the modern world. Reilly, an obese young man dressed in a hunting cap and other strange attire, waits for his mother, Irene, outside of a department store in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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