Richard Cory

Richard Cory poem

What does the poem suggest about the differences between our interior (private) and exterior (public) lives ?

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One of the themes includes the idea that people go to great lengths to project a happy life while hiding internal pain. Richard Cory in not unlike many people today who try to project a "perfect life" on social media, like Facebook, but are actually emotionally struggling.

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