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…showed last 75 words of 238 total…bread. Richard Cory would have gave anything to have what the townspeople had and that was a friend. The reason why Richard Cory went home and shot himself is because that he had no one to enjoy his wealth and life with him. While the townspeople were sitting around together at their dinner tables without meat, and coursing their bread, Richard Cory sat around his dinner table with his meat but very lonely, and sad.