The Rocking-Horse Winner

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…

The Winning Thought (Three Messages from The Rocking Horse Winner) When Rocking Horse Winner was written it was written in third person point of view, which means that the narrator doesn’t take part in the action. When D.H. Lawrence wrote this he really thought about how to make the reader question themselves and see if they may have acted like this at one point in time. Not only does it make them question themselves but it points out some very informational messages and themes that we can…

D.H. Lawrence’s cautioning short story “Rocking Horse Winner” presents the theme of the dangers of secrecy by depicting an avoidable death of a child, through the use of perspective. Within a loveless household, an unlucky mother and son seek to improve their family’s financial prospects. Things go awry when Paul, only a young boy, uses malevolent means to secure winning bets at the derby. His success in gambling ultimately leads to his demise. The opportunity to avoid Paul’s death is hindered…

Are you lucky? (The discussion of three messages from “The Rocking-Horse Winner” by D.H. Lawrence) “The Rocking-Horse Winner” written by D.H. Lawrence is about young boy named Paul who tries with all his might to prove to his oh so greedy mother, that he is full of luck. Paul was brought up only hearing the words of his mother, “There must be more money!” These words haunt young Paul, he even tends to believe that the house whispers the words of his mother. After he receives a wooden…

Luck Of The Devil In D.H. Lawrence's “The Rocking-Horse Winner” the mother’s lack of love, materialism, and her concern for status ultimately destroys her son. The mother married for love, rather than money, but it faded over time. Not even her children could fill the void in her heart where love was meant to be. This “troubled” her and made her all the more tender and concerned for her children, “as if she loved them very much.” Only she knew that in the center of her heart was a place that…

We Win Some, We Lose Some (An analysis of The Rocking Horse Winner by D.H Lawrence) Have you ever believed in a supernatural power or something that gives the ability to have an edge over others?In D.H Lawrence’s The Rocking Horse Winner, there is a young boy named Paul that has the ability to be able to see the future somewhat and win bets for a rather sad reason. All the boy wants is for his mother to believe that he is lucky and for her show him love and affection. Sadly, Paul works very…

“Rocking Horse Winner,” (RHW) by D. H. Lawrence is about a little boy that has the ability to predict the future. When Paul gets on his rocking horse, he can envision which horse is going to win the next big race. While Paul was busy being a child, his mother was busy worrying about being able to stay in the upper-class appearance. They weren’t a poor family, but back then your financial status made a huge difference, so she was frequently stressing to be classified as an upper-class family. She…

Throughout history there have been many memorable writers, and pieces of literature, one of my favorites by far would have to be The Rocking Horse Winner, by D.H. Lawrence. D.H. Lawrence was a writer in the twentieth century, he began writing poems, stories and novel, and his poetry attracted the attention of a well-known writer and editor Ford Madox Ford. Lawrence published his first major novel in 1913. Anyway, The Rocking Horse Winner, is a story about a young boy whose mother cannot seem to…

The Rocking-Horse Winner Symbolism Essay Big mouthfuls will only make someone choke, just as heavy pockets will make a man drown. Throughout D.H. Lawrence's The Rocking Horse Winner there are several symbols centered around greed. The story is based around a boy named Paul and his short life. On Christmas, Paul received a brand new rocking-horse, and he used it to wondrously predict the winner of the local horse races. Paul gambled his way to great fortune, yet there never seemed to be enough…

The Rocking-Horse Winner Story Elements "Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it" (Thompson). Being able to manage luck is a privlege, which is not easy. The outcome can either be good or bad depending on if you are capable of handling the luck properly. This short story is fiction, written about the times before World War I. The moral of the story is not to revolve life around luck, and accept life the way it is. This…