I got an A in a literature course because I pointed out that the last line (went home and put a bullet through his head) bespoke power and control, to the end.
And past the end: Richard Cory could suicide and his family was financially fine, his kids might not even have to drop down in the social rankings.• But if one of his workers ended it all, his family would be evicted and starve to death.I should have gotten an F, because I didn’t do the course’s other requirements , but I scared the prof, who thought I might direct my acidic pen to the foibles he had displayed over that semester.And the moral of the story isOLD AGE AND TREACHERY ALWAYS WILL BEAT YOUTH AND STRENGTH.
Considering how close he has come to destroying the USA, and how inevitable that fate appears, maybe it’s time for that last thing.