cOMPARISON OF ROCKINGHORSE

A Comparison and Contrast of D. H. Lawrence’s “The Rocking Horse Winner” and Graham Greene’s “The Destructors” The similarities and differences in D. H. Lawrence’s “The Rocking-Horse Winner” and Graham Greene’s “The Destructors” (reprinted in Laurence Perrine and Thomas R. Arp, Literature: Structure, Sound, an Sense, 6th ed. [Fort Worth: Harcourt, 1993] 291-303 and 49- 60) are easy for the reader to see. The settings of these two stories are different but two …

…two stories provide a dramatic contrast. The setting in “The Destructors” is an old, neglected and bombed-out house in a desolate neighborhood. However the setting in “The Rocking Horse Winner” was a lovely pleasant but haunted house in a good neighborhood. The character Trevor, in “The Destructors,” and mother, in “The Rocking-Horse Winner,” are comparatively the same type of evil characters. Their compulsive behavior consumes their lives and effect the lives of those around them.