The Rocking Horse Winner Analysis

“The Rocking-Horse Winner” by D.H. Lawrence shows many different themes. Throughout the entire story, the most relevant theme would probably be identity. The family is always torn between the lifestyle they want to live and the one they have to live. The story shows this though love, superstition, and greed. The phase “There must be more money” (1224,1232), assures that this family will never be happy. To begin, a person must understand how love effects the story from the beginning. The beginning of short story conflicts with love very early. The mother character is described of being beautiful and from a rich family. She marries what she calls an unlucky man. They have bony children and not quite as much money as they wish they had. There is little love in that house. “Everyone else said of her: ‘She is such a good

Does the house really murmur for more money and does the rocking horse really for tell the Paul the winning horse? Those questions are overlooked at the beginning but become more and more true at the end of the story. This superstition is created in this house. Paul’s mother believes in superstition and convinces Paul of it. The mother explains to Paul, “If you’re lucky you have money. That’s why it’s better to be born lucky than rich” (1224). This drives Paul to be lucky. His most important tool is his rocking horse. This superstitious object is described in lots of detailed. In some ways, it is described as a living creature as Paul rides it to the winner of the horse race. The men in Paul’s gambling group know this wrong and should probably stop. The addiction of winning and becoming rich force them to not do so. The more money Paul wins the more the house screams of pain. This pain traps Paul in his own identity. In the end, the identity eventually wins and claims life life of the boy. The old family addiction struck