Richard Cory - Analysis
The narrator in "Richard Cory" by Edwin Arlington Robinson is a low class working citizen telling the reader, in detail, about a distinguished gentleman named Richard Cory who eventually "put a bullet through his head." Almost everyone, including the narrator, would stare at him with awe every time they saw him. He was "imperially slim"(4), always charismatic and well-dressed. He was extremely courteous and polite. He would please everyone's heart with a simple "Good Morning." Then the narrator soon explains that on "one calm summer night" he executes himself by putting a gun to his head. When I first read the poem, I thought it told the story of a young man and his riches. After about my third or fourth reading, I realized this poem is revealing that no matter how suicidal one gets, he or she should know that his or her life is not at its worse.
The first two lines of the poem are "Whenever Richard Cory went down town,/We people on the pavement looked at him." After only......
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