D. H. Lawrence's short story "The Rocking-Horse Winner" has many contrasts between story and movie. Three main contrasts being the beginning of the story, the difference in lifestyle for Hester, and the end of the story are some of the most obvious.
             In the beginning of the story, the mother is described as unloving. The reader becomes aware in just a few paragraphs that when the family is alone there is not much love shared between them. When others are present it looks as though they are a most loving family. Like they are in a play and they are the main characters and they must hold onto the role that they are forced to portray.
             "She had bonny children, yet she felt they had been thrust upon her, and she could not love them. And hurriedly she felt she must cover up some fault in herself. Yet what it was that she must cover up she never knew. Nevertheless, when her children were present, she always felt the center of her heart go hard" (118).
             Although she tries to hide her true feelings, she is a very bitter and lonely woman. "Only she herself knew that at the center of her heart was a hard little place that could not feel love, no, not for anybody" (118). As Paul hit the floor totally exhausted and weary from his illness, she felt a strange anxiety swell up inside to the point it was almost too much to bear. "His eyes blazed at her for one strange and senseless second, as he ceased urging his wooden horse. Then he fell with a crash to the ground, and she, all her tormented motherhood flooding upon her, rushed to gather him up (131)." In the movie Hester look as though they have a loving relationship though somewhat distant.
             The style and tone of "The Rocking-Horse Winner" reveal immediately that this story comes from the world of fable and legend. The distant, solemn tone of thenarrator "There was a woman who was beautiful," signals us th
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