A Mothers Love: Story

In the short story “The Rocking-Horse Winner”, by David Herbert Lawrence, there is this family, as the family wants to keep their economic status, the mom want’s to have money all the time. The Mom has a mental mindset of the family being rich, as she believes that she has money, but in reality, the family is not rich and they have no money as they are in debt. The mom is unhappy as the parent's marriage is unsatisfactory, the mom thought she was lucky before she got married to her husband, so she thinks that her husband gave her bad luck. Both parents have no luck. The mom does not like her own children. The mom tells his son Paul, that she and Dad have no luck. This short story has many secrets that various of the characters keep from one another. In “The Rocking-Horse Winner”, the theme is a Moral Obligation as Hester the mom does not like her kids and only her and the kids know, Paul keeps from his mom that him, uncle Oscar, and Bassett have been betting on horse races and that the “Rocking-Horse” gives Paul luck.

The mother-son relationship in “The Rocking-Horse Winner” is a mess of unfulfilled desire, anxiety hostility, and terror. Hester is Paul’s mother, who does not care for anything but mother. Paul challenge to be lucky to win his cold mother heart. But, instead he see his mother anger and need mother. Eventuality, Paul did not do an enough to win his mother heart. Paul desire to please to his mother ultimately leads to his death. Perhaps, Connie also have a trouble relationship with her mother in “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been”? However, Connie and her mother do not get along well in the short stories. Connie’s mother never speak kindly to her and Connie does not think highly of her mother. The mother- daughter bicker constantly and disagree about almost everything. Connie mother envies Connie’s youth and beauty, which she herself has lost. At the end of the story, Connie’ mother whom Connie cries out for when she is presumably attacked by Arneld. She may love beauty but yet her love with her mother will end tragic. Perhaps, Paul may have a tragic terror ending with his mother with death and pain. Paul have fought his luck to win his heart towards his mother. But his mother was cold as stone. As well with Connie, she may love beauty and yet lost it with danger. The two short stories may have an unbound relationship with their mother’s and filled with terror and danger in

He sees that by doing so, Richard will not only please the preacher, but he will demonstrate the strong love he has for his mother. This finally makes him do what he was trying to avoid most. Although he has a rough childhood, it is clear that love remains in his heart, but as he begins to be deprived from it more and more, his hunger for it becomes less intense.

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Hester tells Paul that luck is “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 money. But if you’re lucky, you will always have money.” (236) This pushes Paul to desperately seek out luck so that his mother will be grateful for her life and provide her family with the love and affection that they so rightfully deserve. Paul believes his rocking horse is full of magical powers, which will help him achieve the luck he needs to gain his mother’s love. While Paul rides his rocking horse, the horse predicts the winning horse and ends up making Paul an appalling amount of money. Paul gives his winnings to his mother who squanders it on unnecessary materialistic things. He realizes that he must win more money to win his mother’s affections. He becomes mad and frantically searches for the next winner of the horse races. On Paul’s last ride to find the last winner of the horse race, he falls of the horse and eventually dies.

In “The Rocking-Horse Winner” the mother is quite obsessed with the fact that she does not have enough money, even though she spends lavishly on materialistic things. She whispers to herself constantly about not having enough money, thus giving Paul the impression that he needs to do something in order to make her happy. The story mysteriously unfolds with Paul riding a magical horse that gives him prophetic visions of which horse would win the Epsom Derby. At first it seems like an interesting idea, but eventually Paul obsesses over money exactly like his mother. In the very end of this story, Paul dies from convulsions. Paul chooses the winning horse in the race, but he ends up losing his

The author depicts a common demon the human race faces that is greed and society's need for more possessions and money. This is projected throughout the story showing that Paul's family enjoyed living in style yet always lived beyond their means. There is never enough money, causing a great deal of anxiety in the house (Lawrence 221). The family believes that they are

237). By riding his rocking horse Paul is able to predict the winner of horse races at the track. He uses this ability in an attempt to provide for the family. In doing this he tries to assume his father’s in an attempt to please his mother and the household’s constant whispering the need for more money. “I started it for mother. She said she had no luck, because father is unlucky, so I thought if I was lucky, it might stop whispering.” (Kennedy & Gioia, 2013, pp. 240) even as Paul is dying he is still consumed with trying fill the role of a provider for his mother, “I never told you, mother, that if I can ride my horse and get there, then I’m absolutely sure – oh, absolutely! Mother, did I ever tell you? I am lucky!” […] “But the boy died in the night.” (Kennedy & Gioia, 2013, pp. 245). Paul’s death was a sacrifice to please his mother, who put her desires for money and material things above the love of her children.

Paul's case proved to be a fatal one. Born without a mother, and detached from his overpowering father, Paul became alienated. He went to school but the maternal affection he received there was foreign and furthermore alienated him. Paul, even at his own house, felt out of place and he

Another indication the relationship between Paul and his mother is not perfect is that the relationship is completely one sided. Paul consumes all of his time and energy into finding "luck" after his mother tells him, "'If you are lucky you have money'" (256). Paul knows that if he finds "luck" it will bring money which in return will bring happiness to his mother. Paul's "luck" is found when he rides his rocking horse and is sure of which horse to bet on. When his uncle asks what he is going to do with the money Paul unselfishly responds by saying, "' I started if for mother. She said she had no luck...so I thought if I was lucky, it might stop whispering'" (261). Even though he knows his mother doesn't care for him he still goes through all the trouble in trying to give her happiness. The one-sided relationship is shown again when Paul anonymously gives his mother "a birthday present of a thousand pounds for five successive years" (262). When his mother discovers her generous gift her face hardens and she becomes expressionless (263). She is not at all grateful for the gift, instead of wondering where the money came from she is more occupied with receiving the money all at once (263). Instead of being upset Paul is desperate to please her and "lets her have it [money]" (263). As a result of his mothers lack of maturity in raising a family Paul unintentionally assumes the

The atmosphere within the setting of “The Rocking-Horse Winner,” was also one of depression, stress, anxiety and fear. Although not all the symptoms were present in all of the characters, Paul’s mother was the one that had all the symptoms due to the lack of money. Paul and his other siblings had fear as on of their symptoms when that house started saying, “There must be more money,” one

Paul's mother tries to show others that she is a good mother even though "at the center of her heart

However, at the end of the story this stereotype is completely contrasted following the passing of the mother. When the boy, who is now a grown man and father, returns home to his newborn daughter it is he who displays a nurturing and affectionate relationship between a father and his daughter. This role reversal developed by Munsch effectively casts aside the stereotype that women are better suited to raise a child, and demonstrates that affection and the ability to nurture are not qualities that are able to be defined by a persons gender. Munsch instead shows how these qualities are learned by a person and are displayed as they mature with age. Munsch effectively represents this progression though maturity when showing, the love the boy has for his mother is not absent during his childhood, but simply something he does not display as well as he does when he becomes an adult.

This quote allows the reader to see that Paul’s “new life” was quickly coming to an end and that he was going to be forced to go back to his normal life if he was not able to come up with a plan quickly. The possibility of having to go back to live with his father in his normal life may have clouded Paul’s idea of reality.