How does “The Rocking-Horse Winner” portray the quest for material wealth?
epollock Teacher High School – 12th Grade Debater Expert Educator $(document).ready(function() { $(‘a.toggle_expert_titles’).click(function() { $(‘#show_expert_titles’).toggle(); return false; }); }); The quest for money in “The Rocking-Horse Winner” is portaryed as tragic irony because Paul ends up giving his life for his family. It is the desire for more money that motivates all of the characters in the story. Perhaps the most blatant evidence of the family’s obsession with riches appears in Uncle Oscar’s attempt to console his sister after her son’s death: “My God, Hester, you’re eighty-odd thousand to the good and a poor devil of a son to the bad” (244)—as if he were enumerating her as assets and liabilities on an imaginary balance sheet. Paul’s frenzied pursuit of money differs from the greed of the others in that he wants wealth not for himself but for his mother. Clearly he hopes that, by being “luckier” than his father, he will win his mother’s love and attention. In the end, h
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