Love or The Lack of Love
The two short stories, “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and “The Rocking Horse Winner” by
D. H. Lawrence both use symbols to help the reader understand the theme of the story; however, the themes of both stories were completely different, one about love the other the lack of love.
Every day people commit crimes and us excuses as though any excuse would justify committing a crime. Reading Jackson’s “The Lottery Winner” does not appear to have any difference from the typical reasons people commit crimes. No one in this story looked at the act. They looked at the reason they felt they had to do it. The story is a simple parable about a “thoughtless” tradition, selfishness…show more content… Paul begins to take on these supernatural powers which allow him to commute with his rocking horse. Paul realizes that he can communicate the winners of local horse races trough the rocking horse and begins to use it to gamble for money and his mother’s affection. However, as Paul becomes more obsessed with winning money and affection and eventually gets and sick. Paul tries too hard to win his mother’s love and dies. Hester, Paul’s mother determined to fit in with society but she does not notice that her desires for materialist things are ruining her family. This becomes obvious when Paul has a conversation with his mom while on a shopping trip. Hester gives her son ill advice when she makes him believe that being lucky is the key to becoming rich. At the time Hester, doesn’t know that this advice will have a fatal conscience on her son. Paul shows he is determined to have his mother’s attention when he says “I’m a lucky person”. It isn’t until Paul’s death when his mother realized that her greed and desire for materialist things leave the mother longing to have her son back. It is then that she realizes her superficial ways is what caused the death of her
