Answer:
He needs help. The theme of the title is a man who needs help. He might be dying of heart attack because he is 87.
Explanation:
The rich only want to get richer, and leave poor people in the dust, so they pay people off to keep them happy enough to shove the rest of us down.
A.overloading the lifeboat
The narrator is invited to dinner as an anniversary of sorts that happened a long time ago, where he announced that he built a time machine. And then he arrives dirty and rugged beginning to tell the guests his story