Rocking-House Winner, D.H. Lawrence

In the Rocking-House Winner, D.H. Lawrence uses the word lucky to describe the effects of money, greed, and selfishness. He is trying to show the reader just how blinding one's mind can be when dealing with topics like social status and family standards. A status symbol in society can be a good thing, but to people with un-trained minds like Paul, it resulted in a negative way. Lawrence writes this story with the intent …

…family, trying to make a decent living. On the inside you see a young son trying to show his family that he is lucky and at the same time he is destroying himself. There is that word again.....lucky. Lawrence provokes an emotional response towards family value. With his descriptions about God telling Paul who the winner was because he was lucky, is all rooted back to Paul's Mother pulling those ideas inside his head.