Money Doesn’t Buy Happiness in Edwin Arlington Robinson’s...

Money Doesn’t Buy Happiness Edwin Arlington Robinson’s poem â€Å"Richard Cory† is a mysterious four stanza poem that tells about this wealthy gentleman who was admired throughout the town where he resided only to commit suicide at the end of the fourth stanza. Robinson shows the importance of Richard Cory through the eyes of the person speaking who is a worker of the town. Speaking to a general audience, the worker tells about the effect this man had on all of the townspeople. Richard Cory was a pleasant fellow to be around, but was also hard to talk to because of his wealth. But, the poem unveils that even though he was wealthy and people looked up to him, he was missing something that money couldn’t buy. In the poem â€Å"Richard Cory†, Robinson was trying to present to the reader that money can’t bring a person true happiness. Robinson makes the reader wonder why a wealthy person like Richard Cory would commit suicide. Cory always seemed to be happy as he walked the stre ets of the town. That is why it was such a mystery to a reader because he seemed genuinely pleased with life. He had money and every worker in the town looked up to him, it is even stated in the poem â€Å"In fine, we thought that he was everything.† (Robinson 473, line 11) A pleasant person to be around, Cory would come to the town to talk to people. It does not say if he had people living with him, or why he would come to the town; all it tells the reader is he would visit the town and communicate with the