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Thematic Analysis of The Rocki

D. H. Lawrence’s “The Rocking- Horse Winner” is a story about luck. It seemed to me that to be successful in this society you have to have money and be lucky is directly related to this. This is shown when the mother when the mother tells Paul “It’s what causes you to have money. If you’re lucky you have money. That’s why it’s better to be born lucky than rich. If you’re rich, you may lose your money. But if you’re lucky, you will always get more money.” (647) I think that from this sentence and the rest of the conversation that Paul have with his mother he realizes that to be rich you have to be lucky. Paul doesn’t believe that you are born with luck you just have to look hard enough to find it. I think that it is this realization that leads him to ride the rocking horse in that manner that he does.

One of the reasons he wants to be lucky is to be rich, but not in a selfish way he wants to stop the house whispering “There must be more money! There must be more money!”(646). Another reason is to earn his mother’s love. She does not love her children and I think that he children reali


All of the characters in this story are simple characters as none of them have aleast three of the dimensions of personality. But Paul and his mother are kinetic characters as there is a change in them from the beginning of the story to the end. It appears that towards the end of the story Paul is completely engrossed in finding the winner of the horse races. As this was the only thing that he could think about and the only real focus he had. His mother on the other hand starts to love him, I think. She towards the end acts more motherly and concerned for her son’s welfare more then at any other point in the story.

ze this fact, and Paul wants his mother to love him and he thinks that by being lucky she will. Paul did find luck but in a rather unusual way, which was to ride like a mad-man on a rocking horse he received from his parents. And it was this pursuit of like that finally resulted in his death.

Paul’s actions and the description of his actions are vital to the theme of the story. After he told his mother he was lucky, he went off and went into the nursery were his rocking-horse was a started ridin

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Approximate Word count = 760
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)


  

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