The Rocking Horse Winner by DH Lawrence - 62 views
started by Peter E. Rowe on 18 Oct 12
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#1 Peter E. Rowe on 18 Oct 12You could argue that the house becomes an actual character in the story. What role does the house play in the action of the story? -
#3 Jack Howarth on 19 Oct 12The house has an antagonizing role in the story. It causes that Paul to have some sort of OCD or anxiety issue or something. I think of the house as an sinister energy about it that causes the family to have a shadow cast over it. -
#4 Charles Chen on 19 Oct 12Yes, I think the house could be a character because, in that short story, there is a important sentence "There must be more money." I think that house represent the greed and the unsatisfied for money of Paul's family member, and I also think that house is a guide to the wealth and death. -
#5 Olivia Griffing on 19 Oct 12In "The Rocking Horse Winner", the house definitely turns into one of the main characters. The whole story is consumed in the image of desperately searching for more money. Here is a married couple that has a thirst for expensive objects; it's all about the material world for them. The whole idea of luxery has sucked them so deep into money that they won't stop till they get there. It has affected them so much that it has not only rubbed off on their children, but the entire house has morphed into four cold walls that feeds off of money. The house speaks so loud in this story that it would be impossible to call the house a "supporting character"; the house is the main character. -
#7 Wyatt Lichtenger on 19 Oct 12The house poses as the antagonizer and motivates Paul's mindset to always need more money. THe repetative line the house says "there must be more money" drives Paul so insane that he puts in all his effort to please the house and just get rid of the voice in his head. -
#8 andrew martz on 19 Oct 12I believe that the house resembles the family's conscience as a whole. "There must be more money," just keeps revolving around in their heads, pestering them until they're driven into near insanity. -
#9 Talin Rowe on 20 Oct 12The house is a reflection of the connection of the mother and father which naturally dilutes down into poor little pauly. One could state that the house is the main conflict in the storyline where the struggle of the family first begins. -
#10 Brian Edwards on 20 Oct 12I agree with Talin and Jack. I agree that the main conflict is clouded by the struggle for money, but really the main conflict is the house itself. The House also fuels the families greed, causing Paul to focus only on his rocking horse and the races. Because of the stress Paul feels from the house's "whispers", Paul dies. -
#11 Brianna Reeves Eliopoulos on 20 Oct 12The house plays as the object or "voice" that encourages and pushes the greed of the mother's I believe. Paul's mother is so greedy for more that the house reflects it. "There must be more money..." is repeated by the house over and over again and brings Paul down. The voices scare him a bit and at the same time push his desire to please his mother and eventually drives him insane. If it wasn't for the house whispering "There must be more money. There must be more money." Then Paul might have not even gone crazy in the first place. The house is the core reason why things end up the way they do. It plays one of the Antagonists in the story for sure. -
#12 Matthew Lupovich on 21 Oct 12I think that the house is sort of an echo of the emotions that are displayed by the characters, such as the mother and father. Basically showing that whenever the parents display any kind of greed or negative emotion, the house will whisper "there must be more money". which, in my opinion, doesn't actually mean that the family needs more money, it just reflects on how they have a needed desire for something that isn't that important and choose to ignore the actual problems of the household, such as Paul. -
#13 Shannon Ward on 21 Oct 12I believe that the house is not just a character I think the house is defiantly one of the main characters. In my opinion the house really set the whole story up and was the "voice". The house also played a huge role in the "there must be more money" line that we went over in class. -
#14 zelin wang on 21 Oct 12I think the house is an character and also is the trigger of why Paul goes insane, like what paragraph said:" There must be more money!" The house plays a very important role, the central idea of the whole story, the house is where this story begins and where this story end. -
#15 Jenny Morin on 22 Oct 12The house if a major character in the story because it is whispering to the little boy throughout the entire story. The house is what pushes the little boy into harm and causes him to kill himself. -
#16 Katerina Astri-Marie on 22 Oct 12The house I think is a main charactor because it kind of told what the mother and father were talking about and also it exacheraged on how the mother always wanted more money. I also think it was like a torture for Paul because he had to listen and keep listening to the house thinking everything is his fault and that he needs to fix it. -
#17 Hope Stinson on 22 Oct 12The house played huge role in the insanity of Paul. It drove him to gamble more and more, its whispering of " there must be money somwhere" made him feel obliged to find it. Unfortunately the torment and almost taunting effect that the house had on paul, brought him to a fatal end. In conclusion, yes the house is most deffinetly a character in the story The Rocking Horse Winner by DH Lawrence. -
#18 Mary Yoder on 23 Oct 12I feel like the house is a major protagonist because its seems as though after the house started to "talk" to the boy he became seemingly insane. It made him think that he needed to gamble to be happy and that gambling was the only way to make his mother happy. -
#19 chris moreau on 23 Oct 12the house is a major role in the short story "the rocking horse winner" by DH Lawrence. the house plays a major role because it seems to whisper "there MUST be more money" paul started to pray that he would get to a lucky place. the house was the reason that paul started gambling. -
#20 Warsame Mohamed on 23 Oct 12In "the rocking horse winner", by DH lawrence the house has a provoking and Infuriating in the story paul ends up having a form of assbugers or a type of OCD, the house becomes a character and starts to control the emotions of paul and the family the home symbolizing material things "must be money somewhere" -
#21 Zack Mann on 23 Oct 12i feel like tthe hosue ultimately plays a bigger role then the horse. the hosue is doing the whispering that ultimately casues him to start with the gambleing. -
#22 Xi Wang on 24 Oct 12The house may remain pleasant or beautiful, but the love in the house no longer exist. The house is representing their horror and fear and iterating the money issues. The house is fading, live inside the big fear shell was a family without love. -
#23 Moustapha Niang on 29 Oct 12According to me the house is the main character because by whispering "there must be more money" drive paul to try his best to make it happen. -
#24 teo meyerhoff on 07 Nov 12The house whispers....this is a perfect example of personification. In the story the house takes on characteristics of a human and plays a role in the character life. -
#25 omar harris on 07 Nov 12i think the house isthe antagonist in this story because its driving paul to breakdown mentally, and causing him to have anxiety and paranoia.
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