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why does edwin arlington robinson choose to narrate the poem robert cory from the perspective of a towns person?

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The people of the town in which Richard Cory lives belong to a low socioeconomic background, while Richard Cory is a rich, well-mannered gentleman, envied by everyone in town, as seen in these lines:  

And he was rich—yes, richer than a king—  

And admirably schooled in every grace:  

In fine, we thought that he was everything  

To make us wish that we were in his place.

By choosing one of the townsfolk as narrator, Robinson relates everything Richard Cory does and has through envy. This perspective also helps highlight the shock of Cory’s suicide at the end of the poem. Cory’s suicide depicts irony, as Cory was a man who seemed to have everything but chose to give it all up by taking his own life.

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He felt sorry. He wanted to show how the man really was ignoring how everyone else saw him in the town. People saw him as amazing and grand but was actually quite sad. He was gentle and delicate.

because he is using a description to provide evidence to support his argument.

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