The Rocking Horse Winner Sexuality

Death and Sexuality in D.H Lawrence David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930) has been described as bewildering, controversial, outrageous and “radically out of sync with his culture”. As Anne Fernihough states in the introduction to “The Cambridge Companion to D.H. Lawrence”, “[Lawrence’s prose] is intellectually and emotionally demanding ,its unevenness, its tendency to repetition and excess, its sometimes outrageous flouting of aesthetic norms...are notorious. And as shall be observed, these conflicting paradigms emerge within his short stories as well, to the point where the publisher of ”Smile” (1926) was uncertain about the collection it should be placed in. His short stories become a ground of emotions and actions at odds with themselves , hinting at hysteria in one moment while slipping on the mask of the proper in another. His outrageous flouting of aesthetics manifests itself in this statement by Lawrence in one of his letters to Edward Garnett, where he claims that
And indeed,”The Rocking Horse Winner” seems to ascend the realm of the fantastic. It can however be judged independent of its supernatural element. The setting is a well kept house, despite the finances in which the mother is extremely bitter about the lack of money and the impotency of the father to handle such a situation. Paul, the male older child desperately wants to be lucky to be able to please his mother and his rocking horse becomes the instrument through which he derives his luck, or through which Luck is granted him. There is also the narrowness of ideas highlighted in this story. Luck is good because luck is the harbinger of money, and Uncle Oscar can’t help contemplating on the “win” even as the nephew lies newly