My Rockinghorse-Loser
“D. H. Lawrence's The Rocking-Horse Winner transports us into a world where a boy, feeling that his mother does not love him, gambles to compel her to give him what he craves. We realize quickly that Paul conceives his scheme under the influence of his mother. For though she responds with the technically correct explanation (or definition), when her son confuses the meaning of “lucre” with that of “luck,” the boy senses that his mother’s convictions and conduct are rooted in the same mistake: coming from a gambling family, to her everything in life depends on “luck.” And though young Paul has extraordinary "luck" betting on horses to secretly supply his mother with large sums of money, which he expects to silence the whispers that haunt all her children, naturally, he does not succeed in “buying” her love. As a matter of fact, his ever more frantic efforts result in his death. Far from allowing the outcome to be attributed to chance, Lawrence encourages us to conclude that the mother is to blame for Paul's death in this fairy tale-like short story.” The fundamentals of this story involve a boy's desire to be loved. In the beginning of The Rocking-Horse Winner, Lawrence explains that the mother is los
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Approximate Word count = 1215
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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