Baby Britain appears to be a woman who is a bitter, attention-seeking and had a dependency on alcohol to feel good ("feels best floating over a sea of vodka")
Smith talks about this woman in a very negative tone, so it could be said that he resents her, but when he says "we knocked another couple back" we then know that he still spends time with this woman. (Perhaps what he resents in her is also what he doesn't like in himself?)
Baby Britain seems unable to deal with her own problems, so makes them up to be problems beyond her that she cannot solve ("fights problems with bigger problems") and, in frequent references to the sea Elliott puts across how little of a grip she has on dealing with her own life ("counts the waves that somehow didn't hit her" "you're out swimming in the flood")
He also describes alcohol as something aggressive and violent by making them out to be like soldiers ("the dead soldiers lined up on the table/still prepared for an attack/they didn't know they'd been disabled") It's like alcohol is something they need to fight against by drinking it, a twisted logic for sure.
The most interesting line for me is definitely "For someone half as smart you'd be a work of art." This makes me think that perhaps Baby Britain feels compelled to put herself above others, perhaps people who aren't as 'messed up' as she is, like she's putting herself up on a pedestal for her problems.
Actually I don't think the reference to soldiers has any aggressive meaning. On my campus (and I assume on many others) we refer to beers which have been abandoned before being finished as "fallen soldiers" so the significance in that line is probably from the soldiers being unaware of their disability instead of his eloquent way of describing empty or partly consumed bottles.
Actually I don't think the reference to soldiers has any aggressive meaning. On my campus (and I assume on many others) we refer to beers which have been abandoned before being finished as "fallen soldiers" so the significance in that line is probably from the soldiers being unaware of their disability instead of his eloquent way of describing empty or partly consumed bottles.
Well here's my personal analysis...
Baby Britain appears to be a woman who is a bitter, attention-seeking and had a dependency on alcohol to feel good ("feels best floating over a sea of vodka")
Smith talks about this woman in a very negative tone, so it could be said that he resents her, but when he says "we knocked another couple back" we then know that he still spends time with this woman. (Perhaps what he resents in her is also what he doesn't like in himself?)
Baby Britain seems unable to deal with her own problems, so makes them up to be problems beyond her that she cannot solve ("fights problems with bigger problems") and, in frequent references to the sea Elliott puts across how little of a grip she has on dealing with her own life ("counts the waves that somehow didn't hit her" "you're out swimming in the flood")
He also describes alcohol as something aggressive and violent by making them out to be like soldiers ("the dead soldiers lined up on the table/still prepared for an attack/they didn't know they'd been disabled") It's like alcohol is something they need to fight against by drinking it, a twisted logic for sure.
The most interesting line for me is definitely "For someone half as smart you'd be a work of art." This makes me think that perhaps Baby Britain feels compelled to put herself above others, perhaps people who aren't as 'messed up' as she is, like she's putting herself up on a pedestal for her problems.
Actually I don't think the reference to soldiers has any aggressive meaning. On my campus (and I assume on many others) we refer to beers which have been abandoned before being finished as "fallen soldiers" so the significance in that line is probably from the soldiers being unaware of their disability instead of his eloquent way of describing empty or partly consumed bottles.
Actually I don't think the reference to soldiers has any aggressive meaning. On my campus (and I assume on many others) we refer to beers which have been abandoned before being finished as "fallen soldiers" so the significance in that line is probably from the soldiers being unaware of their disability instead of his eloquent way of describing empty or partly consumed bottles.