“Richard Cory” by Edwin Arlington Robinson, illustrates great significance with depression that reflects in today’s upper class societal issues. His poem is about a rich man that commits suicide and the thoughts of the people who encounter him during his everyday life. Outward appearances are not always, what it seems. Those who suffer from depression can appear to be happy and loving people on the outside, but on the inside, can be suffering from unrelenting nightmares. While money does not always buy happiness, companionship is essential to all beings. However, people who suffer from depression occasionally feel that others do not accept them and only see their faults and miss out entirely on whom they really are. In the past decade, several
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For instance, the way that “He was always quietly arrayed/and he was always human when he talked,” confuses the town’s people as to why he acts in that specific manner, his superiority does not match his genuine character (Robinson 701). For example, the people question why he dresses or speaks the way he does and why he makes contact with them even though he looks high-class. Robinson exemplifies to the reader that outward appearance should not reflect what the person is feeling on the inside. He states “He was a gentleman from sole to crown/clean favored, and imperially slim” (701). Throughout the poem, there are no indications that the main character, Richard, is involved in any relationships. Through his interactions with the people in town, he was trying to seek companionship. Richard Cory is lonely, since there was no mention of relationships throughout the text. He was able to keep his emotions hidden from the rest of the world through his daily routines, and later decided he could not handle it anymore. Although money does not define happiness, eventually, it will no longer matter if one cannot develop that connection with someone
For instance, the way that “He was always quietly arrayed/and he was always human when he talked,” confuses the town’s people as to why he acts in that specific manner, his superiority does not match his genuine character (Robinson 701). For example, the people question why he dresses or speaks the way he does and why he makes contact with them even though he looks high-class. Robinson exemplifies to the reader that outward appearance should not reflect what the person is feeling on the inside. He states “He was a gentleman from sole to crown/clean favored, and imperially slim” (701). Throughout the poem, there are no indications that the main character, Richard, is involved in any relationships. Through his interactions with the people in town, he was trying to seek companionship. Richard Cory is lonely, since there was no mention of relationships throughout the text. He was able to keep his emotions hidden from the rest of the world through his daily routines, and later decided he could not handle it anymore. Although money does not define happiness, eventually, it will no longer matter if one cannot develop that connection with someone