upper class family that was destroyed by greed because they always felt like no matter how much money they had, they always needed more. Neither the mother nor the father showed his or her love for the children and they were both greedy. Their greed consumed and corrupted their innocent children which ended in tragedy and death. This story's main theme is that greed destroys all in its path, and sometimes gets in the way of the truth and takes the place of love.

In the story the mother and father are loveless and greedy. Greed consumes the

mother's thoughts and distorts her outlook on life. She thinks that money is much more

important than anything else, including her children, and no matter how much money she

acquires she can never be happy. Of her three children, Paul was the one who was driven

by his mother's greed. He developed a ridiculous obsession to try and win his mother's

love. He begins riding his wooden rocking horse to find the winner of

shows greed also. The children hear an unspoken phrase constantly saying, " There must

down to money, and in the end Paul dies because of his riding the horse.

the horse could take him to where there was luck, if only he forced it" (998).

becomes obsessed with riding his rocking horse to go where there is luck which all boils

Paul's quest for winning money for his mother got so bad, that one dark night, two

nights before the Derby, a big race, his mother was out at a party and he was put to bed.

"sit on his big rocking horse, charging madly into space..." later it says, "He knew

His anxiety about the winner kept him from sleeping that night, so he began riding the

worse at times when they had an abundance of wealth (like at Christmas). No one in the

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Approximate Word count = 703
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)