The two American poems, “Glass Ceiling” by T.R Hummer and, “Richard Cory” by Edwin Arlington are predicated upon masking our feelings or obnubilating the identity of someone like yourself. The main characters have different fates but go through proximately identically tantamount. Such as “Richard Cory” where the authentic identity of the man is found at the cessation of the poem, and, “Glass Ceiling” where the narrator mentions the identity of the main character during the poem. In the poem, "Richard Cory" the poet mentions in his piece, "To make us wish that we were in his place. " Where the main character is living the life others wished for and he seemed very blissful about it, but the poem takes a poetic turn, whereas he ends up killing