The Rocking horse Winner

As a general rule, children love fairy tales. We grow up being read Grimm's or watching Disney remakes of classics. Parents love telling children fairy tales not only because they have an opportunity to spend time with their sons and daughters, but also because fairy tales, like fables, always contain a lesson or moral within them. Although both Kate Chopin's "The Storm," and D.H. Lawrence's "The Rocking Horse Winner" have some of the qualities …

…no punishment for their betrayal. The story ends with the line, "So the storm passed, and everyone was happy." This tale seems to tell us that betrayal of vows makes everyone happy. It is an amoral and even immoral message. Both "The Storm" and "The Rocking-Horse Winner" are literarily sophisticated stories, yet they have some of the qualities of a child's fairy tale. They each contain very different lessons, one moral and the other amoral.