Gambling With a Life
"Poor Devil, poor devil, he's best gone out of a life where he rides his rocking horse to find a winner(Lawrence 803)." D. H. Lawrence ends The Rocking - Horse Winner, with such a profound statement. One has to ask the question, why such a profound statement? This story is about an unlucky family that substitutes their lust of money for love. The pressure for "more money"(793) is constant, intense and consumes the entire house. The children can feel the house calling out to them in a haunting way "There must be more money (793)." This pressure to acquire money is so great that eventually a mother's son loses his life, though, not before he makes his family rich. He achieves this wealth through gambling. Achieving wealth through gambling is risky, dangerous and costly. The mother of this story is described as having a hard, resentful heart because she was raised wealthy and through circumstances beyond her control, she has lost some of her wealth. She believes the family does not have money because her husband has become unlucky. The family has moderate wealth, but she never feels satisfied that they have enough wealth, although they employ servants. The children have a nurse to tend to their ne
A little later, he falls off in exhaustion, while chanting the name Malabar. The more money he wins, the more he has to have because the house still calls for more money. Paul is uncanny in his predictions and the wealth starts to grow. Gambling wrecks lives, families, and causes loss of jobs. Meanwhile, his gambling habit is now truly living up to what it really is, a gamble! As the pressure mounts and the winnings are meager, because he has suffered some losses, he realizes he must win the Derby. " This addiction is just as deadly as any drug in the world. Consequently, Malabar wins the Derby with odds of fourteen to one, and the family inherits eighty thousand pounds. He also does not name the mother in this story because she could be any child's mother. Jesus, one of the greatest philosophers of all time says, ". Fearfully, she opens the door to find her son riding a rocking horse at a feverous pace.
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