Nathaniel Hawthorne and D.H. Lawrence are two authors whose works reflect their upbringing. Nathaniel Hawthorne, originally from the lineage of Hathornes, who played a significant part in the Salem Witch Trails, referencing the trials as well as his Puritan up bring in his short story Young Goodman Brown; a tale of a man who ventures into the forest with the devil out of curiosity and changes the course of his life in that one night. In The Rocking Horse Winner, D.H. Lawrence reflects on his childhood in the poverty in the short story. Lawrence tells a story of a young boy who attempts to gamble his way to his mother’s love and risks his life in doing so. Both The Rocking-Horse Winner and Young Goodman Brown are extremely different in plot,
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The childhood of D.H. Lawrence forms a voice in The Rocking Horse Winner through one of these tones, sympathy. The sympathy he has towards the boy suggesting his relation with the character. Lawrence, whose family suffered a financial ruin during his childhood, can relate to the poverty struggles. The main tone in his story is irony for a number of reasons. Paul chases after money in order to satisfy his mother whose appetite for more is insatiable. In the end, Paul loses his life in attempts to make his mother happy. Hester, Paul’s mother, loses a son but gains everything she’s been chasing and it’s all due to the life of her young child. The story ends with her brother telling her, “My God Hester, you’re eighty-odd thousand to the good, and a poor devil of a son to the bad. But, poor devil, poor devil, he’s best gone out of a life where he rides his rocking-horse to find a winner.” Paul loses his life but no child deserves to live a life chasing after money in order to merit affections from the one person he should never have to earn it from. In The Rocking Horse Winner, Hawthorne 's tone also carries some irony. There is the main character 's name, “Goodman Brown.” His name suggests that of the air he takes up prior to walking into the forest, one that is self-righteous and piestic. Yet, that venture into the forest changes his attitude and there is no telling which version of Goodman Brown is the
The childhood of D.H. Lawrence forms a voice in The Rocking Horse Winner through one of these tones, sympathy. The sympathy he has towards the boy suggesting his relation with the character. Lawrence, whose family suffered a financial ruin during his childhood, can relate to the poverty struggles. The main tone in his story is irony for a number of reasons. Paul chases after money in order to satisfy his mother whose appetite for more is insatiable. In the end, Paul loses his life in attempts to make his mother happy. Hester, Paul’s mother, loses a son but gains everything she’s been chasing and it’s all due to the life of her young child. The story ends with her brother telling her, “My God Hester, you’re eighty-odd thousand to the good, and a poor devil of a son to the bad. But, poor devil, poor devil, he’s best gone out of a life where he rides his rocking-horse to find a winner.” Paul loses his life but no child deserves to live a life chasing after money in order to merit affections from the one person he should never have to earn it from. In The Rocking Horse Winner, Hawthorne 's tone also carries some irony. There is the main character 's name, “Goodman Brown.” His name suggests that of the air he takes up prior to walking into the forest, one that is self-righteous and piestic. Yet, that venture into the forest changes his attitude and there is no telling which version of Goodman Brown is the