How does the speaker feel about Richard Cory?

The surprising last line of the poem is ultimately where
the whole poem is headed.  As the previous post noted, the pace of the poem is driving
us through this description of Cory and of the regular people of the town, and we are
getting a very clear description of a very fine man, but his suicide comes as a shock. 
We immediately ask ourselves, "Why would he, who seems to have everything, kill
himself?"  That is EXACTLY what the speaker / poet intends for us to do.  The speaker is
purposely establishing the irony of the last line, and it ends up being his judgement of
Richard Cory, even though it is unstated.  The speaker recognizes that there must have
been a shallowness in Cory, or an appearances vs. reality problem in Cory's life for the
man to decide to kill himself.  All of the previous lines establish the outward
appearance and behavior of Cory, or of the people he passed by, but the speaker and we
never know the inner workings of the man himself.