The Rocking Horse Winner

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Style

Combines supernatural with serious issues

Author uses traditional/ oral storytelling

beings with light simplicity and ends with a serious lesson

Openning paragraph is Fariytale-like

Setting

social classes

ealy 20th century

Takes place in England

Themes

Oedipus Complex

Paul's desire for his mother and takes the place of his father

Generosity and Grees

Paul gives all his earings to his mother and wants nothing in return

Pauls dies trying to help his mother and she doesn't care

Responsibility

Paul's parents are obsessed with having money that they sherk their parent duties.

Obsession

Paul wants to win money to make the house stop whisphering

Paul's mother is obsessed with money and kepping up appearences.

Paul's obsession with pleasing his mother

Being born lucky is better than being born rich

Paul's mother says this in reference to his father who had a gambling problem and never won.

Paul on the otherhand is born lucky, he says God made him that way.

Gambling and keeping secrets never lead to anything good

Paul asked Bassett and his Uncle Oscar not to tell his mother abou the money and where is came from.

Gambling is what leads Paul to his madness and imminet death.