"D. H. Lawrence's The Rocking-Horse Winner transports us into a world where a boy, feeling that his mother does not love him, gambles to compel her to give him what he craves. We realize quickly that Paul conceives his scheme under the influence of his mother. For though she responds with the technically correct explanation (or definition), when her son confuses the meaning of "lucre" with that of "luck," the boy senses that his mother's convictions and conduct are rooted in the same mistake: coming from a gambling family, to her everything in life depends on "luck." And though young Paul has extraordinary "luck" betting on horses to secretly supply his mother with large sums of money, which he expects to silence the whispers that haunt all her children, naturally, he does not succeed in "buying" her love. As a matter of fact, his ever more frantic efforts result in his death. Far from allowing the outcome to be attributed to chance, Lawrence encourages us to conclude that the mother is to blame for Paul's death in this fairy tale-like short story."
             The fundamentals of this story involve a boy's desire to be loved. In the beginning of The Rocking-Horse Winner, Lawrence explains that the mother is lost and lonely in her life. This mother overtime became empty of love for both her husband and her children. The boy, Paul, could sense her spoiled heart, and forever longed to be loved and appreciated by his mother. Although it is not deliberately said in the story, both the mother and father were big spenders and their income never came near to satisfying their lifestyle. This situation was rarely discussed, but there was always a whisper reminding the children of their parent's situation. Lawrence describes the content of the eerie whisper in this quote, "And so the house came to be haunted by the unspoken phrase: There must be more money! There must be more money! The chi...