"The Rocking-Horse Winner- is a short story written by D. This is a story about a young boy, Paul, who is desperately searching for luck and money in order to please his unhappy mother. In the end this search leads to Paul's untimely death. I wonder if his mother is satisfied with the fortune the family gained in replace of Paul's life lost? We will explore how the key symbols of this story relate to and reinforce its theme: no matter how hard one tries they will not give up.
Paul's family's house is a settled yet very important symbol that helps convey this theme. The house was first introduced to be a rather "pleasant- place to live. It had a "garden- and the family had a feeling of being "superior to anyone in the neighbourhood."" Any child would love to grow up in such a place, and Paul and his two sisters did. However, the "whispering- of the "unspoken phrase- began coming from the "rocking-horse- and behind "the smart doll's house."" The mother's obsession with becoming "lucky,"" her interpretation of luck is money, would drive the "unspoken phrase- of "There must be more money, there must be more money,"" to haunt the house forever. As a nave, young boy Paul wants to relieve his mother of the so-called dissatisfaction that she possesses. In a conversation between Paul and his mother, Paul learns from his mother that "It's [luck] what causes you to have money."" In hence Paul strives for luck at the horse racing tracks and drives himself to not give up until he "knows- who the winner is, which was a element that contributed to his death.
Throughout the story the author emphasized many times on Paul's "big blue eyes,"" which reflects on his determination to never giving up. As a child, the body and soul are filled with so much eagerness about life and learning that nothing can stand in their way of being excited. Paul always had his "big blue eyes- glaring at his surroundings, especially when he was riding on his rocking horse.
?The Rocking-horse Winner? By D. H. Lawrence ?The Rocking-horse Winner? is a story based on a child who needed to be lucky. Throughout the story different point of view techniques were used which made the story much more believable and interesting. The author used these techniques often, a...
THE ROCKING-HORSE WINNER Every human being desires to rise in life or society; it's how we get there that determine our consequences, Greed has no boundaries with social inequality, however the innocent pay the maximum price. ... Paul rocking-horse, was the key element to getting his "luck". ... Uncle Oscar found the boy on one of his journeys on his horse, his uncle found out the boy's uncanny ability to predict the racehorse winner. ... Defeated, Paul's necessity to escape is apparent, his journey continued on the rocking- horse trying to get away and ye...
Lawrence's short story, "The Rocking-Horse Winner,"" we see a child with many problems. ... This is a definite theme in "The Rocking-Horse winner-, as the reason that Paul starts to gamble is to stop the house from whispering, "There must be more money!... Eventually, Paul decides that he has indeed found luck, and, when riding his rocking horse, is able to tell the winner of an upcoming horse race. ... One evening, after a party, Paul's mother returns to find her son "in his green pyjamas, madly surging on the rocking-horse- frantically seeking for the winner of the Derby. ... Upon ...
In the story "The Rocking-Horse Winner" he mostly used symbolism in the whole story. ... In this story the Lawrence describes the surroundings in sight, smell, noise and physical sense whereas The Rocking Horse Winner is only using a little sight, a little noise and emotional sense. ... For every time the exact phrase was heard the boy struggles to find an answer for it, so he always goes to his room and rides his rocking wooden horse. Paul rides a rocking-horse, until something somehow tells him the winner of a horse race. ...
In the short story "The Rocking-Horse Winner," D.H. ... He begins riding his wooden rocking horse to find the winner of the horse races. ... His anxiety about the winner kept him from sleeping that night, so he began riding the horse furiously. ... He rides a rocking horse to win wealth, and to silence the "whispering" of the house. ... In the end, Paul died of a brain fever brought on by his dissatisfaction and his obsession with riding his wooden rocking horse to find a winner. ...
Lawrence's short story, "The Rocking Horse Winner," is a prime example of an author cleverly applying this theoretical approach to the creation of a story. ... "The Rocking-Horse Winner" is a story about a young boy who is desperately searching for luck and money in order to please his unhappy mother. ... The theme of "The Rocking Horse Winner" indicates the influence parents have on their children, according to the theory. ... All in all, "The Rocking Horse Winner" bears a striking resemblance to Lacan's view on the Psychoanalytic theory. ... "The rocking horse winner." ...
In "The Rocking-Horse Winner", Paul can be seen as a messianic figure, because he appears to become close to God when he rocks back and forth on his rocking-horse, and saves the house. ... Paul rides a rocking horse to become close to god, whereas the biblical figure of Saul/Paul was riding a horse into Damascus when he he encountered and became close to god. other references to this are the fact that the writer makes note of Paul's eyes, which in the bible Saul is struck blind briefly by god. ... In this story we can see that a rocking-horse can be used as a religious tool. Paul uses t...
Greed in The Rocking Horse Winner People need money to live, and enough to buy the basic goods one needs to survive, but everybody wants more money. ... The more money one has, the more money one wants, as is shown in the story, "The Rocking Horse Winner" by D. ... Paul, the child, knew that his family wanted money, and he knew that he was lucky, betting on the horses. ... He picked the horse, and the gardener placed the bet. ... (p. 169) The family, especially the mother, always wanted more money in the story "The Rocking Horse Winner" by D. ...