At this point, the main driving force of Swift's commentary has been built around his outrageous proposal, which seems so fantastic that the reader only than that. the “I got you!” " moment. However, Swift begins to use the dark irony of her proposal to expand and support her true intentions. Swift admits that for more "thrifty" people, the carcasses of dead babies could be skinned and the skin used to make admirable gloves for "beautiful" ladies. Swift brilliantly criticizes the Irish upper class for their inability to accept minor financial cuts in order to contribute to the general good of society, particularly by helping the poor. Instead, he suggests that it would be "thrifty" to take children's skin to wear as gloves, which would be the opposite of being thrifty because it would waste a human life. Swift also uses loaded, in this case extremely patriotic, words and phrases in her diction to help emphasize the irony of her writing. The best example of this is the description of a conversation he had with a "deserving patriot" and "true lover of his country" (1290) who, upon hearing Swift's proposal, offered his own refinement to the aged poor children twelve years old. and fourteen to replace the country's venison supply. Using these loaded phrases to describe someone who not only accepted Swift's proposal, but also brought some refinement of their own