D.H. Lawrence - The Rocking Horse Winner
D.H. Lawrence’s The Rocking Horse Winner, is a supernatural story about a boy with the gift of prediction. Being set in the early 1900’s, the boy’s family was middle class but lived like they were upper class. The father was apparently in and out of jobs and losing money fast. The mother seemed to not know how to do anything except spend the little money the family had. The boy, Paul, knew that the family was in desperate need of money and attempted to sympathize even before he developed his gift. Paul was a kid who’s main goal in life at the time, was to please his parents (mainly his mother). The mother saw Paul as a bit of a nuisance and made him second priority next to finding more money. This negligence really helped develope Paul’s character. He was a boy with his mind set on making his mother happy, just to win back her attention. Before he had much money, Paul was willing to give his mother what he had. The kid didn’t have a concept of money and so she laughed. Paul didn’t take it personally, in fact, I don’t think he understood the mother was basically laughing at him, but with his mom not accepting the little he had, this drove Paul to attempt to find more money. Soon thereafter, Paul witnessed Bassett
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