cOMPARISON OF ROCKINGHORSE

A Comparison and Contrast of D. H. Lawrence’s “The Rocking Horse Winner” and Graham Greene’s “The Destructors” The similarities and differences in D. H. Lawrence’s “The Rocking-Horse Winner” and Graham Greene’s “The Destructors” (reprinted in Laurence Perrine and Thomas R. Arp, Literature: Structure, Sound, an Sense, 6th ed. [Fort Worth: Harcourt, 1993] 291-303 and 49- 60) are easy for the reader to see. The settings of these two stories are different but two …showed first 75 words of 856 total…

…showed last 75 words of 856 total…two stories provide a dramatic contrast. The setting in “The Destructors” is an old, neglected and bombed-out house in a desolate neighborhood. However the setting in “The Rocking Horse Winner” was a lovely pleasant but haunted house in a good neighborhood. The character Trevor, in “The Destructors,” and mother, in “The Rocking-Horse Winner,” are comparatively the same type of evil characters. Their compulsive behavior consumes their lives and effect the lives of those around them.