As an author, DH Lawrence was very controversial. He was influenced by Freud. Freud was attuned to the ways that sexuality motivated the ways that people act and behave. This story doesn’t discuss sexuality, but rather psychological effects of things. There are lots of psychological relations that affects the way a life is lived. In this story, Rocking Horse Winner by DH Lawrence there are three messages that involve a person’s psychological state.
One message in this story is the issue of luck. Luck is something that seems to operate for good or bad in a person’s life. It can bring opportunity or a certain circumstance or event. According to the mother in the story, “It is what causes you to have money. It you’re lucky you have money.” (page 1248) The idea of luck brings Paul, the little boy in the story, to …show more content…
This is a story that shows the parents vividly wounding the children psychologically, although they do not notice the wounds. As that old saying goes, “Monkey see, Monkey do.” The mother desperately wanted money. She wanted it so bad that even the house screamed as an echo of the mother in demand for more and more money. she would complain about her need to be lucky again. When her son asked her what being lucky meant and she explained to him, he felt a desire to become lucky. When trying to find his luck, Paul fell into a gambling addiction, an addiction that eventually killed the kid. His addiction all began from a small, what his mother thought was a meaningless, conversation about luck. While the small boy lay dead, his mother overheard her brother’s voice saying, “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.” (page 1261) That is when she realized she had wounded her son to the
One message in this story is the issue of luck. Luck is something that seems to operate for good or bad in a person’s life. It can bring opportunity or a certain circumstance or event. According to the mother in the story, “It is what causes you to have money. It you’re lucky you have money.” (page 1248) The idea of luck brings Paul, the little boy in the story, to …show more content…
This is a story that shows the parents vividly wounding the children psychologically, although they do not notice the wounds. As that old saying goes, “Monkey see, Monkey do.” The mother desperately wanted money. She wanted it so bad that even the house screamed as an echo of the mother in demand for more and more money. she would complain about her need to be lucky again. When her son asked her what being lucky meant and she explained to him, he felt a desire to become lucky. When trying to find his luck, Paul fell into a gambling addiction, an addiction that eventually killed the kid. His addiction all began from a small, what his mother thought was a meaningless, conversation about luck. While the small boy lay dead, his mother overheard her brother’s voice saying, “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.” (page 1261) That is when she realized she had wounded her son to the