Do We Own Money, or Does Money Own Us?
(Three Messages From the Short Story Rocking Horse Winner by D.H. Lawrence)
Money, money, money. That seems to be something that has almost taken over the world. It has become the most relevant thing in our society today. Everyone is chasing it, and everything involves money. No longer is anything free, everything comes for a price. Sometimes bad things happen because of situations with money as well. People are dying over a piece of paper. All they want to do is please themselves or someone else so they put themselves in bad situations to obtain the money. They want something so little that they will risk their lives to get ahold of it, there is something wrong with that. In the short story Rocking …show more content…
It suggests that in our homes, that is where destroying of our minds take place. It even takes it to another level in saying that our parents are the ones that wound us, and that they do it unknowingly. In the story the mother does this. She says, “Well – I suppose, it’s because your father has no luck.” She is saying this as to why they don’t have money. In all reality the family does have money, they just aren’t rich. They are more so middle class citizens so they have money, it just doesn’t please her as much as she’d like. This is pointing out that the mother may even be the cause of the kid’s madness. All she ever talks about is wanting more money, or not having enough of it. This drives the kid to want to please his mother, that’s all he wants to do. He finds a way to do it and that is when he gets into the horse racing and focuses solely on winning money for his mom. What she doesn’t realize is that he will do anything to get his mother this money. In the end, her wants end up killing her son. He is trying to make his mom happy and he exhausts not only his body, but his brain as well killing himself. Mother doesn’t even realize that this is why he died, but she is the wounding factor in the family. Lawrence connects this to the real world, talking of the damage parents do to their kids …show more content…
What he points out is that money is the importance of the story, that’s what he wants you to look at. The mother just wants more money continually and it brings death upon her kid. She has money, it’s just that she doesn’t have enough to please her. She wants more, she doesn’t want to be middle class and just have enough. She wants to be able to throw her money around and make sure everyone knows she is rich. She is granted five thousand dollars by her son for her birthday. She gets it, but it is supposed to be one thousand a year, for five successive years. In the story it says, “Didn’t you have anything nice in the post for your birthday, mother?’ said Paul. ‘Quite moderately nice.’ She said, her voice cold and absent.” She figures out that she is getting all this money, but extremely mad that she isn’t getting it all at once. Once again it is showing that nothing is enough for her. Lawrence tries to portray that this is exactly how things are in our world. We have money, but yet we always want more. It has gotten so bad that it is to the point where money controls us. No longer is it just a thing, it has become EVERYTHING. It consumes our lives and minds, and it has taken us over. We will do anything to get it, no matter what the consequences
(Three Messages From the Short Story Rocking Horse Winner by D.H. Lawrence)
Money, money, money. That seems to be something that has almost taken over the world. It has become the most relevant thing in our society today. Everyone is chasing it, and everything involves money. No longer is anything free, everything comes for a price. Sometimes bad things happen because of situations with money as well. People are dying over a piece of paper. All they want to do is please themselves or someone else so they put themselves in bad situations to obtain the money. They want something so little that they will risk their lives to get ahold of it, there is something wrong with that. In the short story Rocking …show more content…
It suggests that in our homes, that is where destroying of our minds take place. It even takes it to another level in saying that our parents are the ones that wound us, and that they do it unknowingly. In the story the mother does this. She says, “Well – I suppose, it’s because your father has no luck.” She is saying this as to why they don’t have money. In all reality the family does have money, they just aren’t rich. They are more so middle class citizens so they have money, it just doesn’t please her as much as she’d like. This is pointing out that the mother may even be the cause of the kid’s madness. All she ever talks about is wanting more money, or not having enough of it. This drives the kid to want to please his mother, that’s all he wants to do. He finds a way to do it and that is when he gets into the horse racing and focuses solely on winning money for his mom. What she doesn’t realize is that he will do anything to get his mother this money. In the end, her wants end up killing her son. He is trying to make his mom happy and he exhausts not only his body, but his brain as well killing himself. Mother doesn’t even realize that this is why he died, but she is the wounding factor in the family. Lawrence connects this to the real world, talking of the damage parents do to their kids …show more content…
What he points out is that money is the importance of the story, that’s what he wants you to look at. The mother just wants more money continually and it brings death upon her kid. She has money, it’s just that she doesn’t have enough to please her. She wants more, she doesn’t want to be middle class and just have enough. She wants to be able to throw her money around and make sure everyone knows she is rich. She is granted five thousand dollars by her son for her birthday. She gets it, but it is supposed to be one thousand a year, for five successive years. In the story it says, “Didn’t you have anything nice in the post for your birthday, mother?’ said Paul. ‘Quite moderately nice.’ She said, her voice cold and absent.” She figures out that she is getting all this money, but extremely mad that she isn’t getting it all at once. Once again it is showing that nothing is enough for her. Lawrence tries to portray that this is exactly how things are in our world. We have money, but yet we always want more. It has gotten so bad that it is to the point where money controls us. No longer is it just a thing, it has become EVERYTHING. It consumes our lives and minds, and it has taken us over. We will do anything to get it, no matter what the consequences