Throughout history and even today, thoughtless traditions, selfishness, and greed have taken great place in society. It is noticeable in the racism and sexism that is lived today, in the wealthy trying to take over and try to take anything they want not thinking of the consequences, and in the many thoughtless traditions that even though they should be stopped, many are blinded by the repetition of it that they do not notice what they are actually doing. Such as these examples are what we experience through the conflict, when we read D.H. Lawrence, The Rocking-Horse Winner, and Shirley Jackson’s, The Lottery stories. The characters are faced with life threatening decisions they unfortunately don’t have a way of stopping. In “The Rocking-Horse
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Although Paul’s mother and father had an expensive taste lifestyle, they did not do anything to change their situation, and blamed their lack of luck. Paul’s sisters could hear the wall voices as well but in their innocence, they did not pay much attention to those voices. Paul was the one that took it upon himself to find his luck, to give that lifestyle to his mother. He later found his luck in horse racing. With his winnings he became responsible and a great administrator of his own funds. He had decided he would gift his mother every year on her birthday the same amount for five years. On the other hand, his mother wanting to keep her status and have finer things, requested to have the whole amount at once. The boy hoping to silence the voices in his house, decided to accept her request and give her the full amount. Instead, the voices became louder wanting more. This stressed the boy even more, and he felt even more pressure of gaining money from the races. It wasn’t until the boy’s stress was at a high level, that his mother noticed he was not well, and she did not understand why. The young boy in the end lost his life because he felt the immense pressure of having to give his mother the life she wanted, with the luck he had found for himself, but it was too much for him to
Although Paul’s mother and father had an expensive taste lifestyle, they did not do anything to change their situation, and blamed their lack of luck. Paul’s sisters could hear the wall voices as well but in their innocence, they did not pay much attention to those voices. Paul was the one that took it upon himself to find his luck, to give that lifestyle to his mother. He later found his luck in horse racing. With his winnings he became responsible and a great administrator of his own funds. He had decided he would gift his mother every year on her birthday the same amount for five years. On the other hand, his mother wanting to keep her status and have finer things, requested to have the whole amount at once. The boy hoping to silence the voices in his house, decided to accept her request and give her the full amount. Instead, the voices became louder wanting more. This stressed the boy even more, and he felt even more pressure of gaining money from the races. It wasn’t until the boy’s stress was at a high level, that his mother noticed he was not well, and she did not understand why. The young boy in the end lost his life because he felt the immense pressure of having to give his mother the life she wanted, with the luck he had found for himself, but it was too much for him to