The Rocking-Horse Winner

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…

addresses the idea that psychological problems can create tension on a family. If there is problems with one person in the household there is more then likely to create a negative surrounding for the rest of the household. Within the story The Rocking Horse Winner, the mother feels insanely unlucky, and is frustrated because her husband doesn’t present enough money.…

THESIS: “The Rocking Horse Winner” by D. H. Lawrence and “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson are quite different by quite similar as well. Both authors use Gambling, love and having no love as themes. Gambling in the “Lottery” is right there upfront and in your face straight from reading the title to the announcement of the winner. Lotteries are a form of gambling. In the “Rocking Horse Winner” it’s not so in your face but comes about half way when Paul the son starts to bet on horses as well as…

controls the mind and with drug it's about the body. Lawrence was a great writer and had stories that had true relations to life. The three messages that come up in The Rocking-Horse WInner is gambling with economics, determination or fate, and raises disturbing questions about parents/ children. The first message in Rocking-Horse Winner is he raises questions about economics and the issue with money in this story. The family in this story has money, but the mother thinks that they don't have…

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 could not feel love,…

important twentieth century author. According to Harris (1984), Lawrence wrote Sons and Lover in 1913 and The Rocking Horse Winner was published in 1926 in Harper's Bazaar magazine. The Rocking Horse Winner is a short story that incorporates the elements of a fairy tale and fantasy. It tells the reader about the whispering house and the ability of a boy who foretell…

The short stories titled “Boys and Girls” by Alice Munro and “The Rocking Horse Winner by D.H. Kiefer share a common theme rooted in the power of desire and the struggle to establish loving relationships that appears to be a struggle for many developing adolescents. Both of these short works give us a snapshot of two unique characters mental development during a vulnerable period of development. As these stories progress we become increasingly aware of the underlying themes of the struggle to…

The one story that I would choose from session one, two, or three would have to be “The Rocking Horse Winner”. I chose this story because it was the only one besides “Rules of the Game” they didn’t have my wanting to smack my head off of my desk and wishing it would just end. My overall reaction to the story is this cannot be the end why did the little boy die, how was riding the rocking horse giving him the answers to who would win the race, why was he hearing the house talk to him and the list…

In reading The Rocking-Horse Winner and How to Read Literature Like a Professor, an overarching similarity between these two works can be seen with the presence of a type of ghost in the household (as described by the third chapter in Foster’s work). This ghost deviates from the traditional definition and represents that which is ubiquitous in contemporary, as well as past, life. Foster describes ghosts as ideas or acts that weigh down upon characters and “haunt” them, so to speak. The ghost in…

Tradition" and "Coming of Age". Simple books usually have one main theme, but complex books can have multiple. Themes are usually created or built up by several literary devices, such as irony, metaphors, foreshadowing. Throughout the story, "The Rocking Horse Winner" D.H. Lawrence intentionally created several ironic situations to bring about the theme "Money does not buy Happiness". In the beginning of the story, the reader is informed that Paul's father and mother try to earn more money, but…