Could The Suicide be The Executive after a life of failure? :: English Literature

Could The Suicide be The Executive after a life of failure?Although The Suicide might not be The Executive after a life offailure, there is strong evidence that he is. The Suicide might not bethe Executive for an obvious priming coat and that is that the poets argondifferent. Louis McNeice might not have read John Betjemans poem TheExecutive and this could just be a coincidence but I strongly believethe poets are talking about the same person.There is good evidence that The Suicide is The Executive. One goodpoint is that they are both set in the late 60s. The Executive isbecause it says I do some mild developing. The sort of place I needis a quiet country market town , he is saying he needs a small townso it is easier to get away with. Thats rather run to seed, this isa metaphor that the town has got past its prime and not spendingmoney anymore like the bill all its efforts go into making seedsthen after that it has gone past its prime and its pretty muchuseless. This is the 60s b ecause there was not a licence of housinguntil after this period of time. No one could just knock downbuildings then. Another aspect of the poem, which makes you considerit is in the 60s, is that Betjeman has indite in his poem I have aSlimline briefcase, which were only used around that time becausethey are like the equivalent of red-brick palmtops. Therefore, if theExecutive was so rich he would have the best up to date technology toshow off for work. In The Suicide it indicates that it is set inthe 60s because McNeice writes in his poem Through which he hadwandered deliciously till he stumbled, which is a 60s song.The executive was so high flying, so self-assertive and arrogant. Betjeman issatirising The Executive. He was so insecure about his life he had togo talk himself up to strangers who probably dont even care. I am ayoung executive this line shows he was talking to an older person andit was not a woman because they were not any businesswomen then. Youcan identify immed iately that he is trying to sell himself to this otherperson just from two lines No cuffs than mine are cleaner I have aslimline briefcase and I use the firms Cortina. Hes trying to say heis so successful and rich he can afford all these expensive, modernitems like by saying Ive got a scarlet Aston Martin-and does she go?