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'The Rocking-Horse Winner' By D. H. Lawrence Paul
Raiza Rivera
Professor Yacavace
21 March 2011
ENG 102 In “The Rocking-Horse Winner” written by D.H Lawrence Paul’s mother is a woman who is unsatisfied with her marriage. She seems to feel this way for her husband fails to make enough money to support the elegant lifestyle that she desires. Hester has put her own family in deep debt because she is so materialistic. She behaves as if she is a wonderful women but she does not fool her children. The children, a boy and two girls, know that their mother Hester does not love them nor anyone else. This statement we can declare its truth by the sentence in the short story that says the following: “There was a women who was beautiful, who started with all the advantages, yet she had no luck. She

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