In the short story “The Rocking-Horse Winner”, D. H. Lawrence uses the character of the mother to emphasize what can happen to a family when a family mistakes money for love. The story is based around a small family that is in need of more money, or so they think. The young boy, Paul, is determined to be lucky and to somehow provide enough money so that he and the rest of his family can …showed first 75 words of 403 total…

…showed last 75 words of 403 total…the ultimate price for his mother’s greed. He would no longer be there to be the lucky one. He had given his life in hopes of pleasing his mother. The mother who had no idea what love was, or how to share it with her children. She had no idea what it meant to be happy or content. Happiness is not wishing for more, happiness is being content with what you have been given.