The Rocking-Horse Winner
In the short story "The Rocking-Horse Winner," D.H. Lawrence presents anupper class family that was destroyed by greed because they always felt like no matter how much money they had, they always needed more. Neither the mother nor the father showed his or her love for the children and they were both greedy. Their greed consumed and corrupted their innocent children which ended in tragedy and death. This story's main theme is that greed destroys all in its path, and sometimes gets in the way of the truth and takes the place of love. In the story the mother and father are loveless and greedy. Greed consumes themother's thoughts and distorts her outlook on life. She thinks that money is much moreimportant than anything else, including her children, and no matter how much money sheacquires she can never be happy. Of her three children, Paul was the one who was drivenby his mother's greed. He developed a ridiculous obsession to try and win his mother'slove. He begins riding his wooden rocking horse to find the winner of
This shows that greed from one family member has influenced another. The materialistic family finally has "eighty-oddthousand to the good, and a poor devil of a son to the bad" (1005), and so it may havemade them stop and think of their lives and where their priorities stood. Money can reallydistort people's ways of thinking and it can take the place of love. It hasdistorted the boy's way of thinking. " later it says, "He knewthe horse could take him to where there was luck, if only he forced it" (998). His ridingultimately puts him to his death. he was unconscious, and unconscious he remained, with some brain fever" (1005). In the end, Paul died of a brain fever brought on by hisdissatisfaction and his obsession with riding his wooden rocking horse to find a winner. He rides a rocking horse to win wealth, and tosilence the "whispering" of the house. Paul's quest for winning money for his mother got so bad, that one dark night, twonights before the Derby, a big race, his mother was out at a party and he was put to bed.
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