In "The Rocking Horse Winner", there is only one word precisely describing the mood of the house where Paul lives: Anxiety. It could be found at least seven times throughout the story. In the story, the house is "loaded" all the time with bizarre whispers: "There must be more money". That is because all members in that family just rush for their needs, money, luck and so on, and hardly pay any attention to each other's inner thoughts. The mother, though being housed in a well better-off family, feels that "at the centre of her heart was a hard little place that could not feel love" just because she always listens to the "anxiety" for money lurking here and there in the house. She is haunted by the ideas of luck and money. Never could we spot any saying when the mother lets out a word about "love" or "happiness", not at all. Instead, she just thrusts herself in expensive hungers. The more money she gets, the more she craves. Even when receiving five thousand pounds from her son, she just feels it "Quite moderately nice" - she wants more. Paul's father is always busy involving in money-making activities "for the social position which they had to keep up". Paul indulges in gambling because of, on one part, his close contact with his uncle and
In "The Rocking Horse Winner", there is only one word precisely describing the mood of the house where Paul lives: Anxiety. It could be found at least seven times throughout the story. In the story, the house is "loaded" all the time with bizarre whispers: "There must be more money". That is because all members in that family just rush for their needs, money, luck and so on, and hardly pay any attention to each other's inner thoughts. The mother, though being housed in a well better-off family, feels that "at the centre of her heart was a hard little place that could not feel love" just because she always listens to the "anxiety" for money lurking here and there in the house. She is haunted by the ideas of luck and money. Never could we spot any saying when the mother lets out a word about "love" or "happiness", not at all. Instead, she just thrusts herself in expensive hungers. The more money she gets, the more she craves. Even when receiving five thousand pounds from her son, she just feels it "Quite moderately nice" - she wants more. Paul's father is always busy involving in money-making activities "for the social position which they had to keep up". Paul indulges in gambling because of, on one part, his close contact with his uncle and