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Explanation:
Although Cory is rich and of an elite class, he kills himself because he is unhappy.
The poem begins describing Richard Cory as a rich gentleman. The speaker of the poem is one of the townspeople and he says, "we thought that he was everything to make us wish that we were in his place." This envy from the townspeople does not cost him his life. But it surprises the townspeople because they thought they wanted to be him, however, they do not want to be dead like Cory is at the end of the poem. It is ironic because his unhappiness is unexpected since he came across as though he was happy because of his money.
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Gregor Samsa is the protagonist of The Metamorphosis, a novel by Franz Kafka that tells the story of a man who suddenly wakes up as an insect, beginning to be despised by his family, whom until then he had financially supported.
This story is riddled with metaphors regarding the social changes that were taking place in the early 1900s. Kafka, who supported philosophical existentialism, saw how society was losing its values in pursuit of an increasing consumerism and individualism.
Thus, he portrays Gregor as he feels in that society: an insect, a rare being who feels despised by others. In addition, Gregor's own personality is similar to that of the author: an individual with a high sense of responsibility and guilt, who has within him a fear of rejection and a tendency towards loneliness and sadness.