The Rocking-Horse Winner

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People require money to live a life, however, eventually, obsession would form on particular people who never feel enough. The short story “The Rocking-Horse Winner” written by D. H. Lawrence, always has been classified as a fable because it teaches a moral, or a practical lesson. The story is written in omniscient third-person point of view, and can be summarized as how the son, “Paul,” believes that he has fortune to bring wealth to his unlucky mother, “Hester,” by gambling in horse races, which causes his death at the end of the plot. In comparing the story and the film, the author of the story and film director masterfully use the similarities and differences of the plot and characterization to illustrate the theme that family relationships…show more content…
For example, in the story “although they lived in style, they felt always an anxiety in the house (Lawrence, 379).” Hester and her husband had no luck and are keeping facing the problem of shortage of money because their income is low and they also have to keep up their social position. Another example is the repeating whispering voice in the room. “The father, who was always very handsome and expensive in is tastes… [Hester’s] tastes were just as expensive. And so the house came to be haunted by the unspoken phrase: There must be more money! There must be more money! (Lawrence, 379-380)” Exactly, the same things happen in the film. The shortage of money is an external conflict and will cause Paul’s internal conflict. The haunted whispering voice is an epigram, a brief, memorable statement. Everyone in the family knows that “There must be more money”, although no one intends to say so. It symbolizes what the Hester wants to say, but said by an unknown voice from the room that Paul can hear. It is a real obsessed voice in needing of money that Hester lets Paul know. She is just greedy and cold-hearted. It is also foreshadowing Paul’s motivation, actions and behaviors in the later plot of the story. The similarities of setting are facing shortage of money and the haunted whispering voice by an unspoken phrase in their

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