The Rocking Horse Winner.
In the rocking horse winner, the year when all takes
place is not specified, but some references from World War I and actual racing
horses of the time tells that the story takes place in 1920s in England. The
story takes place in a spooky house in which there lived Hester with her
husband and children, in a nice neighborhood.
In the story, there are some difficult situations, in
which the ambitious is the main problem, ambitious since the parents to the
children. In this short story written by D.H Lawrence we are going to analyze
how the characters are and how the story goes, through the setting, the point
of view and fictional world the characters live.
We starts with the main character; Paul, he is as
small boy, the enough to have a rocking horse in Christmas, but as young as to
worry about financial situations. For me, the emotionalism that Paul suffers
caused by his mother’s ambition is extremely inadmissible. Children do not
have to worry about home’s financial situations; parents have to. Nevertheless,
it is inevitable that children ask about money but they do not need and do not
have to carry these stuffs. For the mother’s ambition, Paul suffers a lot, he
wants to give a lucky life to his mother gaining money, as she told him, case
in which bill him the bill, and in the final he dies. Another character is the
mother, Hester, she was an extremely ambitious woman who always was looking how
to get more and more money to satisfy her luxury’s necessities, but she did not
have much lucky. Analyzing, there are many women like hers, but no only women,
also men, whose are not satisfied and want more and more, without take care
about the people who are following their steps. Also the uncle Oscar, even he
was not a bad figure for Paul, he did not do anything to stop Paul to gambling,
maybe he wanted to help Paul to increase the luxuries, gaining money gambling,
but that was not the best way, less if Paul was a child. Then, Bassett the gardener; he helped Paul saving
Paul’s money product of the gambling. He thinks Paul’s talent for picking
winning racehorses is a gift from heaven. Finally, the father; well! The story
does not say much about him, he only appears a few times, his name does not
even appear in the story. Well, maybe for that reason, Hester wanted to have
more money, to satisfy her children’s necessities because the only thing that
is known in the story about the father is that he did not have much lucky
making money.
To finish, the family lived in a fictional world. Why?
Well, they did not live in poverty, they lived in a good way, but Hester,
including her family wanted more luxuries, but much more Hester. The house was
infiltrated with the shadow, material values of society. Therefore, they wanted
to live a fancy life, that they could not, just for ambitious.
This situation and troubles let us to learn about not
be so ambitious about life’s things, the material things are less important
than the family, and we as mothers and fathers have to teach our family that
there is one life and we have to live it healthy. The stress, the problems, the
daily eagerness make us to worry about thing that sometimes are not necessary
and unhealthy.
Now, let me your comments:
1. Do you think is fair that children suffer for parents actions?
2. What do you will recommend to Hester about her ambition?
And here you can find important information about the story.
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