Although a lot of stories may differ in a lot of ways, the key components always stay the same. A writer must have a good set of characters, a good plot, a good theme, and all the things of that nature. Every person may have a different idea of what makes a particular story “interesting” to them, and keeps them wanting to go back and read the story more and more. For a person like me, I would have to say that the theme of the story can really keep interest. A theme that can truly resonate beyond the story into real life, and truly provide a person to think and even learn a lesson as well as themes that really stir the pot and can be seen as very powerful are the ones that truly do the best job of doing just that. Really what is the point of
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Peter’s riding of his rocking horse is a metaphor for other things dealing with his mother. It is not until the end of the story until his mother actually finds this out when she walks in on him doing the his little act. Sajjad Saberi goes into detail about the Oedipus complex in his essay “A Psychoanalytic Reading of D.H. Lawrence’s ‘The Rocking Horse-Winner.’” Saberi states both that Paul’s complex causes him to “do everything to be with the mother sexually, and to make his mother happy emotionally,” and “Hester’s own sense of insufficiency spills over onto Paul, who is driven mad by his ever more desperate attempts to please her and earn her love.” This can also tie back into Lawrence’s showing of greed being a bad thing. Lawrence seems to use the two to coincide with each other. Paul becomes so obsessed with the love and in a way becomes greedy with the love just as his mom is greedy with the money. This both leads to the demise of Paul, thus showcasing the evil. With all being said, Lawrence used his beliefs of not only love within a relationship, but the distain for greed as well to showcase to people that they should take what they have and never feel as though they need to have everything on the planet. And with this he shows the true power of greed in any setting with all that can be caused by it. Lawrence really knew what he was doing when he wrote the story, just as Valdez did. The end results of both stories came to be truly useful
Peter’s riding of his rocking horse is a metaphor for other things dealing with his mother. It is not until the end of the story until his mother actually finds this out when she walks in on him doing the his little act. Sajjad Saberi goes into detail about the Oedipus complex in his essay “A Psychoanalytic Reading of D.H. Lawrence’s ‘The Rocking Horse-Winner.’” Saberi states both that Paul’s complex causes him to “do everything to be with the mother sexually, and to make his mother happy emotionally,” and “Hester’s own sense of insufficiency spills over onto Paul, who is driven mad by his ever more desperate attempts to please her and earn her love.” This can also tie back into Lawrence’s showing of greed being a bad thing. Lawrence seems to use the two to coincide with each other. Paul becomes so obsessed with the love and in a way becomes greedy with the love just as his mom is greedy with the money. This both leads to the demise of Paul, thus showcasing the evil. With all being said, Lawrence used his beliefs of not only love within a relationship, but the distain for greed as well to showcase to people that they should take what they have and never feel as though they need to have everything on the planet. And with this he shows the true power of greed in any setting with all that can be caused by it. Lawrence really knew what he was doing when he wrote the story, just as Valdez did. The end results of both stories came to be truly useful