What does this quote mean? " You never really understand a person until you consider things from their point of view...until you climb into their skin and walk around in it."

That quote means you don’t really know what there life is like. They might be going through a lot of things that you don’t know about. If you say you know someone and everything about them, well do you really. You don’t know every memory they have, everything they have touched, everything they have seen, everything they have been through. That’s what that quote means.

Although Cory is rich and of an elite class, he kills himself because he is unhappy.

The poem begins describing Richard Cory as a rich gentleman. The speaker of the poem is one of the townspeople and he says, "we thought that he was everything to make us wish that we were in his place." This envy from the townspeople does not cost him his life. But it surprises the townspeople because they thought they wanted to be him, however, they do not want to be dead like Cory is at the end of the poem. It is ironic because his unhappiness is unexpected since he came across as though he was happy because of his money.