Comparing The Jewelry And The Rocking-Horse Winner

Can Money Be a Bad Thing?
Many people seem to believe that money means happiness and if you have it you will have what is thought to be the perfect life. In this paper I will be comparing and contrasting two stories called “The Jewelry” and “The Rocking-Horse Winner.” I found these stories to be very shallow but interesting and wrong but also right at the very same time. The characters that make up these short stories are also very intriguing and have a side to them that you don’t find out until later in the story. Can money be unhealthy and damaging to a marriage or family? In the story “The Jewelry” two people were madly in love and he claimed there were only two things about her that he didn’t like and that was her love for theater and
This family is also not considered to be very wealthy but they made themselves struggle financially because they only wanted nice things and wanted people to think that they had a lot of money. They had a large home and a maid that waited on them and watched the children. Everyone thought that the Mother was a loving mom that loved her children dearly and was a great wife but in her heart she was bitter at being married and having kids. All the kids knew that their mother had a unheard hatred for them but never said a word. The son became very money curious and began to ask his mother a lot of question which made her even more bitter. The son considered himself to be lucky unlike the rest of the family. He heard the house say things about money and strived to find a way to provide for his mother. He soon learned that his rocking horse in his room would tell him the name to a winning horse if he road it and thought very vigorously, which actually worked. Nobody knew about his secret until the very end where he risk his own life to provide for his mother, The mom was a very greedy woman and only cared about money and how they could make more of it. Instead of her providing for her kids like a normal parent does the kid provided for her and she was okay with that. She dressed id fur and jewels and went to big parties and spends what money they had on materialistic things for only her. The boy came across a lot of money and was going to give her a certain amount once a year on her birthday but she demanded to have it all at once, which the boy allowed her to do so. By riding his rocking horse the way he did to find out the secret horses name we grew very tired and anxious. His attitude and poise scared everyone when he was on the horse. The Mother finally became concerned with her sons wellbeing in the end but it was already too late and