The Rocking-Horse Winner Love

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Is it right to let greed overpower love? That is what the mom does to her child in the short story “The Rocking-Horse Winner”. The character shows no love for her children and always worries about getting more money. The continuous theme for D. H. Lawrence’s “The Rocking-Horse Winner” is love should not be labeled with a price. The mother in the short story never truly loved her own children. Even though people think that she loves her children dearly, she knows “she had bonny children, yet she felt they had been thrust upon her, and she could not love them” (Lawrence 295). The mother worries because there never seems to be enough money. Her own son, Paul, wants to feel love from his mother, so he tries to earn some money for her. This is