The Rocking-Horse Winner
In the short story “The Rocking-Horse Winner,” D.H. Lawrence presents an
upper 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 storys 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 the
mothers thoughts and distorts her outlook on life. She thinks that money is much more
important than anything else, including her children, and no matter how much money she
acquires she can never be happy. Of her three children, Paul was the one who was driven
by his mothers greed. He developed a ridiculous obsession to try and win his mothers
love. He begins riding his wooden rocking horse to find the winner of the horse races.
He wins money by betting on his winning horse and he becomes
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