Paul In The Rocking Horse Winner

In the story the Rocking Horse Winner, D.H. Lawrence uses Paul to show that being lucky is bad. Paul becomes obsess with luck when his mother tells him that his dad has no luck and that’s why they have money problems. Paul's mother said to him, "it's because your father has no luck." Paul’s realization that luck causes you to have money, drives him to find a way to get lucky and the money he thinks luckiness will get him at any cost. Another way Paul is concern with becoming lucky is when he first starts riding the rocking horse. The narrator explains” He wanted luck, he wanted it, he wanted it. When the two girls were playing dolls in the nursery, he would sit on his big rocking-horse, charging madly into space, with a frenzy that made the