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D.H. Lawrence's "The Rocking Horse" Winner, another kind of analysis/review
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D.
H.
Lawrence’s The Rocking Horse Winner is a roughly macabre portrait of despair of the life of a
20th
century English family.
The introductory paragraph is riddled with sorrow; from the pitiful description of
the mother as...
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D.
H.
Lawrence’s The Rocking Horse Winner is a roughly macabre portrait of despair of the life of a
20th
century English family.
The introductory paragraph is riddled with sorrow; from the pitiful description of
the mother as beautiful yet luckless, and bereft of true compassion for her children on which (along with her
luckless husband) she blamed all of her misfortune and not the extremely idiotic and frivolous way she and
her husband live above their means, to the ironic vision that persons outside the family would take from
their forced loveliness.
The family is haunted by the chanting of the ever restless and cruel house they live
in.
It constantly reminds them of the futility of their lives and the problems at hand with its coarse whispers
of, “There must be more money!”
In what would appear to be a benevolent turn from the disheartening opening lines the boy,
presumably wishing to gain luck to impress and perhaps gain love from his silently disparaging mother,
takes it upon
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