This is the story of a family who pretends to have a life full of luxury while their income is low and their debts are high. Paul, the older son of the family, after seeing to the importance of money and luck in his mother's life, discovers that he is not as unlucky as the rest of his family. His luck helps him to predict the winner of horse races. For a time Paul gets money as a gambler thanks to Bassett, the gardener, and later on with the complicity of his uncle, who is curious about his nephew's abilities. The winnings were given to Paul's mother to pay debts, but she found the money wasn't enough to keep up their social status. Paul feels the need to win one of the three big races. He found himself worried when the two of the races came and he didn't know the winner. Finally, Paul predicts the winner while riding his rocking-horse. During the incident, Paul gets sick and dies. The story ends with some lines that make the reader wonder about the real meaning of life.

The insatiable thirst for power and gold is the main disease in society. Important things are left on the side, and usually appreciated too late to repair the mistake.

ents an impartial omniscient narrator. He knows the character's thoughts and ideas but does not judge them. The story doesn't present a lot of details or development of the characters or settings. The reader doesn't know anything about Paul's siblings and father, and only at the end of the story is the name of his mother revealed. These facts contribute to the story's message giving the impression of a tale or fable. They prepare the readers to expect a moral, and challenge them to find a meaning in what seems a magical unrealistic story.

A phrase that goes along the story is the whisper of the house: "there must be more money". At the beginning, this is a whisper in waiting for money to cover the family's debt, but later on, when Paul's mother receives five thousands pounds from her son's gambling, the same whisper turns into ambition. The whisper is louder and intense, not asking for help anymore, but asking for more of this drug called money. Ambition is never satisfied. Once the mother gets what she wants, her desire grows; it keeps growing along with the whisper of the house, which in a sense is the representation of the family's desires.

The narrator uses the adjectives "beautiful" and "handsome" to refer to Paul's mother and father. These adjectives are a representation of another false place where people look for happiness. A beautiful person is considered lucky and deserving of anything he wants to get, and for some people it is almost impossible to t

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