Short Story the Rocking Horse Winner

Formalism:

The Rocking-Horse Winner by D.H. Lawrence is a wonderful story which consists of suspense and horror. The story takes place in England in the years after the First World War. The places include a home in London (London’s Richmond Park), and the Lincoln Racecourse in Lincoln. Some of the symbols that I felt were highly effective in the story were the house, and the rocking horse. The house represented the bad habits, desire for money, and the family’s desires.

The whispering is symbolic of the family’s financial problems.

Paul’s mother’s high desires and expectations for life are responsible for the house to begin to chant. The mother can never be satisfied. The other symbol I thought was the rocking horse it represented the solution. By riding the horse Paul can get where he wants, where luck can be found, and is able to help his mom, in order to get his mothers attention and love.

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Paul had this supernatural power of communicating with his wooden rocking horse to find the winning races. I felt that this was unbelievable and quite shocking at first, but the story later progressed and I got used to it.

Protagonist:

I felt that Paul was the protagonist in The Rocking-Horse Winner short story. Paul is a young child who is always troubled by his family’s lack of money. When his mother starts to tell him that being unlucky was the reason for having little money, Paul started to go crazy and obsessed in finding luck.

He feels that his mother does not love him, even his sisters that weirdly show affection