Up to this point the main driving force of Swift's commentary has been built around his outrageous proposition, which turns out to be so fantastical that the reader is just waiting for the "gotcha !" moment. However, Swift instead begins to use the dark irony of his proposal to build and support his real intentions. Swift confesses that for more “thrifty” people the carcasses of dead children could be flayed, and the skin used to make admirable gloves for “beautiful” ladies. Swift brilliantly criticizes the Irish upper class for their inability to accept small financial cuts to help the general good of society, especially helping the poor. He instead suggests that it would be “thrifty” to take children's skin to wear as gloves, something that would be the exact opposite of being thrifty as it would waste a human life. Swift also employs the use of loaded, in this case extremely patriotic, words and phrases in his diction to highlight the irony of his writing. The best example of this can be seen when describing a conversation had with a "deserving patriot" and "true lover of his country" (1290) who, after hearing Swift's proposal, offers his own refinement that the poor children of between the ages of twelve and fourteen to replace the country's supply of venison. The use of those loaded phrases to describe someone who not only accepted Swift's proposal, but gave his own refinement