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Compare And Contrast Mask And Richard Cory
In these two poems like in “Richard Cory” and also the poem “mask”. They are both have their own meaning, like In Richard Cory he talks about how money can change someone and just the way they act after they get what they always wanted. The mask is talking about begin fake, or telling somebody take off your mask. There are people go have masks and they always wear it and act like they are someone different than. There are so many people that are wearing a mask because either their afraid or scared of something and so they hide their emotions. Richard Cory talks about how money is not important and how it can change people. If someone got the amount of money they wanted and they can do that whenever they want and there will be people that

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