Swift focuses on maintaining his luxurious lifestyle, which includes fashionable dinners and exquisite taverns. The author distances himself from helping the less fortunate, although he reiterates that his proposal will help the poor. Ironically, his proposal goes in the direction of genocide and ethnic cleansing. Furthermore, towards the end of A Modest Proposal, Swift writes this line stating that he lacks self-interest: “I have no children with whom I can propose to get a single penny; the youngest was nine years old and my wife had no more children. (A MODEST