My Rockinghorse-Loser

The Rocking-Horse 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 …showed first 75 words of 1257 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1257 total…young boy, tries to capture the love and attention of his mother. Because of a stone filled heart Paul’s mother never notices her son’s ambitions, which in the end kills her son. This story is given the title The Rocking-Horse Winner because of the boy’s wonderful luck horse racing. We find in the end that the boy never gets the love that he longed for, and loses his life as the result.