Essay on Luck and Fate in The Rocking Horse Winner -- Rocking Horse Wi

pile and Fate in The Rocking Horse Winner   The Rocking Horse Winner, by D.H. Lawrence, is an enlightening story about luck and geniuss own fortune.  In this story, Lawrence attempts to illustrate how one can guide ones own fate, instead of allowing things to happen by chance.  He believes that the whole person that affects what happens to someone, is really that person himself.  Everything is what you make of it, is Lawrences message to the reader.  By his use of characterization, instructional images, and irony in The Rocking Horse Winner, D.H. Lawrence attempts to convey to the reader that success and luck are not something that one simply waits for to arrive, only if things that one must works to achieve.               Lawrence uses to contrasting characters to help convey his point, viz. those of the boy Paul, and his m separate, Hester.  Paul, according to the story, is lucky, whereas his mother is not.  It was not simply decided upon that it would be this way, but each character had a hand in how they would end up up.  Pauls mother allowed herself to be resigned to the fact that fate had dealt her an unlucky hand.  Though she had cardinal wonderful children, she could not love them.  Though she had a roof oer her head, she was not content, and yet she did nothing to change this besides wait for the going that never came.  The story says that Hester wanted to be first in something, and did not succeed, and when she did not succeed, she moved on instead of working towards her goal.  Paul, on the other hand, learned very quickly that if he is to succeed, he must bind dedication.  Paul applied him... ...mple, and death.  She discovers the poor boy rocking himself into unconsciousness on the horse, and only substantiates the significance and importance of his exertion upon his death.  Pauls mother, the inadvertent teacher, becomes the stud ent, only to lose her teacher.               Lawrence wishes for his readers to understand the significance of working towards your goals before enjoying the fruits of ones labor.  He instructs that waiting for good things to equitable fall into your lap is a lost cause, and the odds are hugely against you.  If however, this does happen to you, that you should take your gold and sit on it,  before make any kind of decision about its proper use.  Chances might be that the products themselves might depict their use, as in Pauls case.