Gambling With a Life “Poor Devil, poor devil, he’s best gone out of a life where he rides his rocking horse to find a winner(Lawrence 803).” D. H. Lawrence ends The Rocking - Horse Winner, with such a profound statement. One has to ask the question, why such a profound statement? This story is about an unlucky family that substitutes their lust of money for love. The pressure for “more money”(793) is constant, intense …showed first 75 words of 1251 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1251 total…the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his own soul (Saint Mark 986).” Works Cited Cozie, Charles P. and Winters, Paula A. Gambling. CA.: Greenhaven, 1995. Lawrence, D. H. The Rocking – Horse Winner. Trimmer, Joseph D. and Jennings, C. Wade. Fictions: Fourth Editions. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1998. Riconda, Andrew. Gambling. New York: H.W. Wilson Company, 1995. Saint Mark. The Holy Bible, Authorized King James Version. Nashville: Holman, 1985.