Similarities Between The Yellow Wallpaper And The Rocking Horse Winner

In Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story,“The yellow wallpaper”and D.H.Lawerence’s “The rocking horse winner” there are many truths to consider. Although this two stories have the same concept of family affection, but one the husband’s condescends make the wife more depress. In contrast, the other one, the son is taking the responsibility of his mother. In both tales, the character from two stories shows the conflicts occur between their family members. For instance, in the area of being alike, Paul wants to win the mother’s love, affection and approval, the husband of the narrator from “The yellow wallpaper”, who ignores and refuse to take any attempts of his wife. Both character got ignored the feelings by their families, and thus become …show more content…
In “the Rocking Horse Winner”, the plot of the story is young boy obsessive desire to “become lucky”. This young boy, Paul, believes what his mother said that “if you are lucky, you have money, that’s why it’s better to be born lucky than rich”, and he hear the house is continually whispering, “…there must be more money…there must be more money”. Paul wants to prove his luckiness to his mom by getting more and more money, even by doing so, he cannot satisfy the greedy of his mother. Eventually, the son plied in the last time he tries to prove to his mother. On the other hand, the narrator’s husband in “The yellow wall paper” wants his sick wife gets better, but did not respect the narrator’s feeling, so the narrator’s illness becomes more severe, she looked at the wallpaper, start to think there are some woman inside the wallpaper “sometimes I think there are a great