Rockign Horse Winner

Hester frequently makes harsh remarks such as: “Gazing at pearl, Hester Prynne often dropped her work upon her knees, and cried out with an agony which she would fain have hidden, but which made utterance for itself, betwixt speech and a groan, ‘O Father in heaven- if thou art still my father- what is this being which I have brought into the world!” (p. 77) She fell into a state of hopelessness and poverty. She could not get a job as a woman in this time period, so all she could do was sell items she crafted and grow food in a garden. She lived in a shack with minimal furnishings for survival.

The treatment of Hester almost reaches a low point in this chapter. She is cut off socially in the sense that she has no friends and lives in an isolated cottage. In addition, Hester becomes an outcast which even the children mock, causing her more pain. Hawthorne indicates that even though Hester spends time helping to make clothes for the poor, they treat her badly in spite of her good intentions.

The Rocking-Horse Winner is a short story written by D.H. Lawrence. The story revolves around Paul, a little boy, who gets involved in gambling in order to improve the financial conditions of his family and prove his luck to his mother. At the first glance, from the title, I assumed that it would be an upbeat tale about a little kid who surmounts his little obstacles. However, it turns out to be completely different. Starting off as a gloomy tale, it turns even darker towards the end. It begins with description of a mother who is fed up of her life and husband. She has a never ending greed for money and does not live her children. Paul, on of her children is determined to find a way to end the financial problems and prove his luck to his mother in order to win her love. His endeavor, however, ends in defeat as he fails to get his mother’s affection.

     The characters are totally different in the two versions. The short story’s main characters are a family; a husband, a wife, and two children. The film’s characters are a woman and a man, and the man’s mother and younger sister.

The Rocking Horse Winner displays the need for money that many people feel. A family is so desperate to maintain their lifestyle that they associate luck with money and money with luck. It’s a package deal that either comes in pairs or not at all. Without knowing it, Paul’s parents poisoned their children’s minds with the haunting phrase: There must be more money.

In the beginning of the book, Hester is shamed for committing adultery and throughout the book struggles to find out who she is. Hester has the opportunity to leave New England but instead chooses to stay, therefore deciding to accept the sin that she has committed and entwine it into her own life. This is shown when Hester is leaving the jail, she begins to walk home and think about what her new life will entail, “the days of the far-off future would toil onward; still with the same burden for her to take up and bear along with her, but never fling down; for the accumulating days and added years would pile up their misery upon the heap of shame” (Hawthorne 70). Hester’s thoughts show that she truly understands the endeavors that she will have to encounter for the rest of her days but accepts them because she knows she cannot

“The Rocking Horse Winner” by D.H. Lawrence is a story about a little boy who is neglected by his mom and desperately rides his horse in order to predict which horse will be the next winner at the race track. He wins a lot of money for his mother, hoping that it will earn her love; however, he is greatly mistaken. He ends up riding his horse to exhaustion just to get more money and ends up dying. In “The Rocking Horse Winner” Lawrence uses symbolism, a biblical allusion, and negative characterization of the mother to explain the pursuit of money is a futile quest and does not result in a happy ending.

Close to the exposition of the story, Hester has a monologue that includes many details about the two main characters. Hester is described as a caring mother urging her strict husband to introduce mild lenience, while William is given the silent air of authority and power over the family. Hester's initial character strongly fights for her sons' rights to go to the fair, as seen in paragraph three. Describing Hester's unrelenting manner is

The first prominent issue regarding Paul’s quest is his mother’s sense of self-fulfillment. Though the family is fairly well off, Hester’s ideologies bring into perspective the value of items that regard the basis of living. Desire is responsible for the growing greed in which Hester becomes trapped within. Necessities and desires become illusions of one another, and satisfaction becomes emphasized upon wealth. Hester’s actions after she is given money

Some readers find that Paul does receive a sense of love, satisfaction, and security from his sole pursuit of money. Religious literary critic, Charles Koban, believes that she loves Paul more than she did her husband. If Hester truly

The Rocking Horse Winner, a short story regarding a family that was alienated from each other the mother of this story felt she was and her family were very unlucky resulting in her distaste for her family. This story highlights the damaged relationship between a mother and her child, also showing an upper-class family that was unable keep up with the luxurious and lavish life style they once lived to be destroyed by greed because they were haunted by the phrase there must be more money no matter how much they have gotten. Although, she and her husband both had stable incomes, the family was still not able to afford the life they wanted, the mother not wiling to down grade the way she lived caused a sort of disorder in the family. This lack of fortune caused the mother to resent her

Though Hester has had a complicated life in Boston, she remains strong-willed throughout the book. By the end, she has become a friend and paternal figure to the woman in the town. They realize that her punishment has stemmed from the strong sexist roots

The most obvious change is the character and narrator of the story, Red. In the original story, he was a middle-aged Irishman with graying red hair, hence the nickname. Clearly, Morgan Freeman is not a redhead, nor is he Irish. Other, comparatively insignificant alterations include the poster Andy keeps in his cell. In the original story, it is a poster of Rita Hayworth, whereas in the film, it is Linda Ronstadt. In spite of the differentiations between the film and its literary source of inspiration, there is one theme that is prominent in both worlds that makes them what they are, hope.

The tone of this story is situational irony. The statements about Hester's beauty can never be taken at face value when everything else in the story can see that Hester has no inner beauty, and maybe Uncle Oscar's wealth comes only from his ability to exploit others, not from luck.

The Rocking- Horse Winner is a short story written by D. H Lawrence. This story revolves around a young boy named Paul, and his wealthy but miserable family. Paul has grown up in a house where his mother has burdened him with the fact that the family is not as wealthy as some of the other’s in the neighborhood. So much so, that young Paul can hear his house speak these words. Paul has found a solution to his family problems by betting on horse races. He does this with the help of his rocking horse and his uncle Oscar, as well as the gardener. To everyone’s amazement young Paul has a gift. It is discovered that Paul has the ability to predict winning horses in horse races. Paul achieves this goal by riding his rocking horse profusely. The