Though that title character is "quietly arrayed," he is "a gentleman from sole to crown/ Clean favored and imperially slim," and everyone wishes they were in his place until the final couplet.   
Radcliffe Squires claims that this character's self emerges neurotically, yet triumphant.  In the A.R. Gurney play based on this work, its title character's failure as a public defender and husband to Emily help instigate his final act.  The speaker of this poem describes the "people on the pavement" who "went without the meat and cursed the bread" but get "fluttered pulses" when the title character says "Good morning" to them.  Though that title character is "quietly arrayed," he is "a gentleman from sole to crown/ Clean favored and imperially slim," and everyone wishes they were in his place until the final couplet.   FTP, name this poem about a rich guy who "puts a bullet through his head," by Edwin Arlington Robinson.
Radcliffe Squires claims that this character's self emerges neurotically, yet triumphant.  
“{Richard Cory}” (2) [DL]