The Rocking Horse Winner Theme

The "Rocking-Horse Winner" by D.H. Lawrence is a short story, in which the author puts a lot of emphasis on the battered relationship between a mother and her child. The battered relationship was not necessarily physical but mostly emotional. The author demonstrates in detail how the mental neglect from ones mother can cause damage and a void to a child. The author's work is known for its analysis of human development and illustrates the nature of emotions within this story. The author demonstrates techniques of the fairy tale short story to describe and explain moralization on the value of love and the dangers of the money. D.H. Lawrence presents an upper class white collar family that is destroyed and segregated by wealth and the effects it had on the family, because they always felt like no matter how much money they had, they always needed more. Then the author tells the reader about the downfall of an upper middle class family struggling to maintain appearances through habitual reoccurring and frequent overspending. The author displays the negative effect that money can have and lead to bad luck and lack of love in the upper middle class English life and of modern society causing the corruption of the human society as a whole.

The main theme that is demonstrated throughout the story is that greediness can and will destroy all in its path almost like a tornado and sometimes can even get in the way of the truth while also taking the place of love. In the story the mother and father are heartless and unable to show love to their children because of their ongoing greediness. Neither the mother nor the father showed his or her love for the children and they were both more focused unbeknownst to them on their greedy habits....

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...ble without the need for money. He believes that one who has a happy family is lucky and it is a priceless gift that God can offer to one. Greed and desire for things that are beyond one's means pushes one toward the road to destruction. The author wants people to see beyond the materialistic things that make them happy. He wants people to care for each other and love endlessly. Lawrence's idea is to tell people to be content with what they have and to live happily. Happiness comes within oneself and that is far more important than money or the status. The world would look far more beautiful if one loves themselves and those around them. In the end instead of luck brining Paul and his mother happiness, it brings him to his deathbed. Even though he had everything, he had nothing because he lacked the most important thing and that is the love of his mother and family.