Rawson studies various divisions of A Modest Proposal and their effects on popular explanations of the reading. The Modest Proposer, who thinks of the Irish as part analytical objects and part beasts, who talks of children dropped from their dam, of corpse, of breeders and couples and the rest, is not mainly mimicking other pamphleteers, so much as giving voice to a certain side of Swift himself. The irony briefly ceases to work in reverse, and moves instead in some kind of direct parallel with Swift's own feelings. Of course, Swift was saying one thing and meaning another.
Every author omits some details, but unlike the typical short story narrator, Le Guin's narrator confesses the incompletion of the picture, she admits that she isn't sure