The Rocking-Horse Winner

In the short story "The Rocking-Horse Winner," D.H. Lawrence presents an upper class family that was destroyed by greed because they always felt like no matter how much money they had, they always needed more. Neither the mother nor the father showed his or her love for the children and they were both greedy. Their greed consumed and corrupted their innocent children which ended in tragedy and death. This story's main theme is that …

…has expressed his ideas that "the love of money is the root of all evil" very convincingly. It makes one realize his priorities are not in the right places, and after reading this story, it shows that money is really corrupting and evil. Money can really distort people's ways of thinking and it can take the place of love. Love and money do not mix, and money can destroy a family's love for one another.