Corey was viewed as a king by the townspeople and put up on a pedestal. The townspeople envied him, Cory lived what they thought to be the ideal life––he ate meat while they ate bread, he dressed to impress while they dressed in hand-me-downs, and he was educated while they were not. The townspeople all wished to be in Richard Cory’s shoes because they saw what was on the outside. Although, Cory longed for friendship and human connections; he greeted the townspeople with, “good morning” while downtown, but they paid him no mind because he was a “king”. One night Richard Cory’s internal loneliness got the best of him and he committed suicide. Robinson wanted to depict an envious town and a man they admired but in the last line of the poem he showed that Cory was not, in fact, perfect
Corey was viewed as a king by the townspeople and put up on a pedestal. The townspeople envied him, Cory lived what they thought to be the ideal life––he ate meat while they ate bread, he dressed to impress while they dressed in hand-me-downs, and he was educated while they were not. The townspeople all wished to be in Richard Cory’s shoes because they saw what was on the outside. Although, Cory longed for friendship and human connections; he greeted the townspeople with, “good morning” while downtown, but they paid him no mind because he was a “king”. One night Richard Cory’s internal loneliness got the best of him and he committed suicide. Robinson wanted to depict an envious town and a man they admired but in the last line of the poem he showed that Cory was not, in fact, perfect