Dazhi Yang, Yonghong Gao

Yonghong Gao

28 December 2023

The Rocking Horse Winner, D.H. Lawrence, Materialism, Lovelessness, Family writing.

The Rocking Horse Winner by D.H. Lawrence is a modernist short story and a family drama as well, which tells the tragic family story of a son who loses his life in order to get his mother’s love. Based on close reading, this paper expounds the family writing of The Rocking Horse Winner from three aspects: the harm of materialism to the family, the tragedy brought by the loveless family, and the ideological connotations of the family writing. It is aimed to better understand the moral and ethical values contained in the story, in order to benefit the development of society and mankind.

© 2023, the Authors. Published by ISCCAC

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