Question

reader response essay about Edwin Arlington Robinson's poem "Richard Cory"

Answer 1

In "Richard Cory," the focus is not on "why" the suicide did what he did; it is on the mystery itself. Certainly, the people who admired Cory because of all he possessed personally and financially did not expect such an act. To them he seemed to have everything worth living for, while they struggled to put food on the table.

It's about a man who everyone admires and thinks so highly of, in fact is caught up in his own horrid despair, and ends up killing himself. The moral of the story is that appearances aren't always as they seem and money surely does not buy happiness and relationships ,close ones, are needed in life to be able to be okay.