Analysis Of Rocking-Horse Winner By D. H. Lawrence

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In the “Rocking-Horse Winner,” D.H. Lawrence wrote about the house and the people inside as if they represents society. The events and characters in the story demonstrates when people in life that are obsessed with money will have the wrong values in life. The obsessiveness will often lead people results in tragedy. The author is trying to tell us there ae more to life than just materialist things like money. No one in this world isn’t in need of money. We work our entire life to get income for our satisfying needs. Ones can differ from other. One will work hard for money to satisfy just their needs, while others would go above and beyond to reach their dream homes or dream cars. And those are different types of obsessiveness. Meanwhile, in my family it’s the total opposite. We value hard work and education …show more content…

It’s something to get children entertain. Although, the author uses the rocking horse to symbolize it as a vehicle to make money; because of this horse the family are now wealthy. In society, the rocking horse can be clients and how people uses each other to make money through businesses. Or it can be ones ego. When one can get too over their head and let that ego control and lead to the wrong values in life. Another symbol the author use to represent society is the house. The house can also be ones ego as well and to always have the drive to make more money like it was written in the story the house keep whispering the phrase “There must be more money! There must be more money!” (Lawrence 101.) Just like everyone’s’ mind set our motivation is to always have more

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