The Rocking Horse Winner
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.
