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life. And, it is the needless greed that is the culprit of death. This story could easily be seen as a story that preaches the ...

In 3 pages this paper examines how materialism is portrayed within D.H. Lawrence's short story 'The Rocking Horse Winner' and by G...

concerned with the cultural deterioration which was inevitable after the wars catastrophic destruction. Two of these authors most...

Oscar often refers to "filthy lucre" (Lawrence 922). His mother explains that luck is "what causes you to have money. If youre l...

clear that there are some very mysterious things taking place within the story. We note this first in the presence of the house wh...

and, determined to prove to his mother that he is not unlucky like his father, Paul supernaturally begins the attempt to change th...

world, in which society is restructuring itself after the devastation of the war - a devastation which T, at least, seems to feel ...

in luck. The boy associates luck with money because his house seems to speak constantly of needing more money. He tells his mother...

of passion in their lives, this somber existence. The mood is also set by the tone as it develops along with the plot. In Lawrence...

for an hour, thinking about her past, her relationship, and her future. As she ponders she begins to really experience a sense of ...

doing all the time; he is even privy to their thoughts and feelings. This is different from a first person narrator ("I took a wal...

him and who has lawful access to the mother" (Oedipal trajectory/Oedipal complex, 2004). As the boy develops he begins to realize ...

they are poor because they have no luck. Paul, being a small child, thinks that luck is a tangible object to be found, obtained or...

sort of injustice, it would have engendered a certain amount of sympathy for him in the reader. Faulkner goes to great lengths to ...

inherent ability to pursue even the most complex of concepts. Not unlike his myriad other works, which include the famous Floweri...

In five pages this paper evaluates the luck of Paul, the protagonist in this short story by D.H. Lawrence. Six sources are cited ...

effect, there is a cause and for every cause, there is an effect. Paul is greatly effected by what his mother does and how she fe...

These two stories are compared in terms of themes and characterizations in six pages. There is no bibliography included....

everywhere, and therefore no one spoke it" (Lawrence). And, when money appeared, through the efforts of the boy, brining relief it...

even though her sister will not appreciate them in a real way as Maggie will. Maggie is one of those people who is easily used and...

by the lack of ethical integrity, which seemed to be a byproduct of industrial society. The wheels of progress, in Lawrences view...

of trance, or opens himself to whatever psychic power he possesses at these times. But lets go back to the beginning. One of the ...

1918, but there are no existent early drafts until the 1919 version, which was published at this time in a Cambridge edition of La...

In five pages this paper examines how short stories depict love in terms of similarities and differences found in Susan Minot's 'L...

hospital, in another town, with a crushed leg, She talks to her son, "almost as if she were thinking aloud to him, and he took it...

"was a former schoolteacher, greatly superior in education to her husband. Lawrences childhood was dominated by poverty and fricti...

years old. Much of his literary talent was applied to the task of making mankind aware of his intimate attachment to nature. Law...

her training in society was different, for her focus was on religion and the proper way things should be done. While the mother in...

she thinks this man must love her. She thinks, suddenly, that he does not, and in all honesty, he does not love her for he has onl...

she goes about her work and the family talks around her. As one author notes, "None of the sons address the sister as they do each...