How would you like to live enviously glamorous life of the super rich? It sounds amazing, a dream come true! They romanticise every moment of it, “we think they are everything to make us wish that we were in their place.”* (Richard Cory 13, 14). However, it’s not all that it seems. As we see in the novel, ‘The Great Gatsby’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and the poem, ‘Richard Cory’ by Edwin Arlington Robinson, Jay Gatsby and Richard Cory both lived the lives of luxury and seemed to have it all together, however, when behind closed doors it was the exact opposite. Though these stories differ in their circumstances the theme, Money Cannot Buy Happiness, is prevalent in both works. Life seemed to be great for Jay Gatsby, the legendary
