D. H. Lawrences The Rocking-Horse Winner Essay -- Lawrence Rocking Ho

D. H. Lawrences The Rocking-Horse WinnerThe Rocking-Horse Winner is a short story by D. H. Lawrence in which he creates a criticism of the modernized worlds confusion and desire for material objects. It was published in Harpers Bazaar magazine in 1926 for the first time (E-Notes). The storys principal(prenominal) character, Hester, is a beautiful woman who is completely consumed by the idea of possession, and so she loses out on the lie with of family and the happiness of life. Her son, Paul, also learns to love wealth because of his negligent mother, invariably hearing the whispers of empty pockets in their home. D. H. Lawrence uses the relationship between Paul and Hester and their money in The Rocking-Horse Winner to show the shortcomings of vanity and the falseness of appearances in the early ordinal century society.Hester is introduced to us in the story as an unnamed character, either the woman or the mother, making it apparent that there is a society to the average sou lfulness. There was a woman who was beautiful, who started with all the advantages, yet she had no luck (Lawrence 481). Lawrence begins his tale by introducing not only the main character, but the main question. What is luck? By revealing Hesters definition of luck, Lawrence makes his disdain for his societys need for unnecessary luxuries known. Hester believes that luck is the thing that enables you to attain wealth, but she does not believe that she has any. Of course, Hester is surrounded by innumerable signs of wealth a mansion, servants, expensive clothing, pricey toys for her children, and a high-society life style. All she cares about is maintaining the faade of perfection, buying the roughly expensive things just to look pretty with no job to... ...ty for ones own actions (E-notes). Lawrence uses his tale, The Rocking-Horse Winner, to show that wealth is a source of corruption which destroys a person and their bonds to their fellow man. People use money to buy the image of themselves they want others to believe is the real one however, Lawrences story leads one to see that love and respect are not things that should be able to be bought and sold, and the world needs compassion to survive. Works CitedCharters, Ann. David Herbert Lawrence. The Story and Its Writer An Introduction to goldbrick Fiction. New York Bedford/St. Martins, 2003.Lawrence, D. H. The Rocking-Horse Winner. The Story and Its Writer An Introduction to Short Fiction. Ed. Ann Charters. New York Bedford/St. Martins, 2003. The Rocking-Horse Winner E-Notes. 10 Oct. 2004.