Swift wrote "A Modest Proposal" under a pseudonym, so who is the speaker here? The speaker is a Protestant and a member of the Irish upper class. He represents the hypocrisy of many “wanna-be reformers”, whose so called aspirations to be compassionate are a ploy to mask their genuine prejudice and general intolerance
Actually each kid will get 1.5 sandwiches because there are only 75 sandwiches and if each kid got 2 there would have to be 100 sandwiches but there is only 76
Paul's mother goes shopping every month and her accountant noticed that there were a lot of miscellaneous charges that didn't relate to her shopping trip.