Paul is obsessively attached to the horse, a material item, and the materialism leads to his death. Lawrence uses the Lawrence to symbolize the dangers of chasing wealth and his disdain for conspicuous consumption. What does the rocking horse symbolize in the story? Summing up the ideas of symbolism regarding Read more…
At the beginning of the story, Hester feels cold toward her children and cannot make herself love them. By the end of the story, however, she is overwhelmed with concern for Paul’s well-being—although Lawrence doesn’t show her reaction to Paul’s death. How do you explain Hester’s inability to love her Read more…
Peace. At the end of the war, the Army had far more horses than it needed in peacetime. Around 500,000 were sold for work, about 100,000 of these in Britain, the rest abroad. Owing to public concern about the treatment of these animals, all buyers had to be investigated. What Read more…
They heard it at Christmas, when the expensive and splendid toys filled the nursery. Behind the shining modern rocking-horse, behind the smart doll’s-house, a voice would start whispering: “There must be more money! There must be more money!” And the children would stop playing, to listen for a moment. Why Read more…
self: Paul is in conflict with himself because his main focus is on whether or not he will make his mother happy or if he has chosen the right horse or not. At the end, his internal conflicts lead to him becoming depressed and losing his conscience, and he dies. Read more…
capitalist society. In ”The Rocking-Horse Winner,” D.H. Lawrence criticizes capitalism. He does this by shredding apart the idea that if you have luck you will have money, and hence, be happy. Furthermore, he uses symbolic whisperings to represent greed in a capitalist society. What is the theme of The Rocking-Horse Read more…
Play continues until one player has at least 15 points commonly 21 points at the end of a round. NHPA sanctioned games are generally played to 30, 40, or 50 points, or a shoe limit of 30, 40 or 50 shoes. The horseshoes can be made of either plastic or Read more…
Situational irony occurs when actions have the opposite of an intended effect, precisely the problem that Paul, the prescient child of a greedy mother, experiences in D.H. Lawrence’s “The Rocking Horse Winner.” Paul uses his preternatural gift for picking winning horses to save a family already doomed by the What Read more…
While Hester possesses some motherly intuition, she is unaware of her son’s gambling habits until they result in his death at the end of “The Rocking-Horse Winner.” Hester’s ignorance in this regard creates moments of dramatic irony, in which the reader knows crucial information about Hester’s family that Hester What Read more…
Nevertheless, in The Rocking-Horse Winner story, after Paul’s mother learns where her money comes from, the boy claims to be lucky, but sadly he died soon afterward. What was the ending of the story The Rocking-Horse Winner? The ending is just stone cold. Literally. Hester has never been very affectionate Read more…