Rocking Horse Winner

Affects of the Materialistic Pursuit All the major characters in D. H. Lawrence’s, “The Rocking Horse Winner” revolve around the pursuit of materialistic abundance. In the story a boy, Paul, seems possessed to ride a rocking horse to supernaturally find a winning horse to an actual horse race, until he eventually dies because of it. The definition of materialistic in the American Heritage Dictionary, “The theory or attitude that physical well-being and worldly possessions …showed first 75 words of 1371 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1371 total…single character was exempt from the folly of the materialistic pursuit. The stress that materialistic pursuits cause can destroy a family and person. Because of the family’s high regard for money, “they felt themselves superior to anyone in the neighborhood” , but showed obvious signs of distance with each other. For these characters the highest value in life was not life itself, but was the physical possessions that they pursued- even if it meant death.