We pretend to be just fine when in reality we are not, is what the poems "Richard Cory" by Edwin A. Robinson, and "Glass Ceiling" by T.R. Hummer is explained to us by using poetry. The common theme is that people shield themselves or other to other people. It is either to protect their loved ones or to protect themselves from getting harmed. In the poem "Richard Cory", Robinson explained that Richard Cory was more than perfect that we might think that "...he was everything to make us think that we were in his place", which mean that he pretended to be fine to other people and he as an individual masked himself to make other people think that he had his life organized. However, the twist that the Robinson recite to us that,
