The Rocking Horse Winner The Rocking Horse Winner, by D.H. Lawrence, is an informative story about luck and one’s own fortune. In this story, Lawrence attempts to illustrate how one can guide one’s own fate, instead of allowing things to happen to yourself. He believes that the only person that affects what happens to someone, is really that person himself. “Everything is what you make of it,” is Lawrence’s message to …showed first 75 words of 836 total…

…showed last 75 words of 836 total…before enjoying the fruits of one’s labor. He instructs that waiting for good things to just fall into your lap is a lost cause, and the odds are hugely against you. If however, this does happen to you, that you should “take your gold and sit on it,” before making any kind of decision about its proper use. Chances might be that the products themselves might depict their use, as in Paul’s case.