The Rocking Horse Winner Essay

Some people are so poor, all they have is money. “And so the house came to be haunted by the unspoken phrase, there must be more money! There must be more money! (5). Everything in the house whispers this expression, recommending that no measure of cash is sufficient. Cash just moves the longing for more cash. D. H. Lawrence is the author of this significant story called “The Rocking Horse Winner”. The main characters of this story are Paul, Hester, Basset and Uncle Oscar. This story is about Paul and his selfish, money hungry, mother whose thirsty search for money kills her emotionally and Paul literally. In the story “The Rocking-Horse Winner”, D.H. Lawrence proposes that affection and materialism are discordant together because it caused

She likes fancy things, but doesn’t seem to keep enough money because of it. She seems to be miserable with her better half, who can 't give the rich life she craves. Hester may have all the right needs of being a dedicated mother, yet her kids know how barely handles her responsibilities. In the text it states that she hardly loved her children. Hester realizes that her kids consider her to be insecure about the way others see her. The mother views her chances in being happy by being lucky. In the text it talks about the mother explaining to her son what luck means. “It’s what causes you to have money. If you’re lucky you have money. That’s why it’s better to be born lucky than rich. If you’re rich, you may lose your money. But if you’re lucky, you will always get more money.” (1224) This quote tells me that mother believes that luck brings money and money brings you happiness, which is the wrong way of thinking considering the fact that her son is very responsive to the things going on around the house and he wants her to be

In her head she thinks buying them things that will make her kids happy but they need their mother’s love also. Paul is determined to make his mom lucky by showering her with unexpected money that would hopefully bring happiness to her life. All while making the house whispers stop and while picking up his dad’s slack. Paul wants to be loved by his mother so he starts betting on horses that will indeed win. This allowed him to make money that his mother or father couldn’t. He was indeed lucky because of the rocking horse and he had faith he was. His leap of faith was stated clearly in the text. “God told me,’ he asserted, brazening it out.” (1225) Paul is only a kid, and young men aren 't candidly prepared to substitute a father in a mother 's affections nor are they arranged to go up against the duties of supporting a family all together. Sadly, Paul 's young personality can 't contain his outsized feelings, prompting his unfavorable