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Essay Archive - Theme of “Richard Cory”
Theme of “Richard Cory”
The theme of “Richard Cory”, by Edwin Arlington Robinson, is that
people cannot determine another person’s happiness by their appearance. The
author uses the setting, imagery, and symbolism to illustrate this theme.
The settings that this author uses makes the readers think that
Richard Cory is a happy man who is greatly admired. Downtown is one of the
settings that was used. Downtown is used as a place where Richard Cory
seemed to have gone often because the people that work there seem to know
who he is. The poem talks of him walking downtown without see....
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