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“The Rocking-Horse Winner” is a short story written by D.H. Lawrence. This is a story about a young boy, Paul, who is desperately searching for luck and money in order to please his unhappy mother. In the end this search leads to Paul’s untimely death. I wonder if his mother is satisfied with the fortune the family gained in replace of Paul’s life lost? We will explore how the key symbols of this story relate to and reinforce its theme: no matter how hard one tries they will not give up. Paul’s family’s house is a settled yet very important symbol that helps convey this theme. The house was first introduced to be a rather “pleasant” place to live. It had a “garden” and the family had a feeling of being “superior to anyone in the neighbourhood.” Any child would love to grow up in such a place, and Paul and his two sisters did. However, the “whispering” of the “unspoken phrase” began coming from the “rocking-horse” and behind “the smart doll’s house.” The mother’s obsession with becoming “lucky,” her interpretation of luck is money, would drive the “unspoken phrase” of “There must be more money, there must be more money,” to haunt the house forever. As a naïve, young boy