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This essay provides an analysis of D. H. Lawrence's short story "The Rocking-Horse Winner" that focuses on characterization. The essay argues that Paul, a young boy in the story, dies because the character of his mother is so coldly materialistic that he is willing to sacrifice his own life to earn her money.

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"In David Herbert (D. H.) Lawrence's "The Rocking-Horse Winner", the protagonist of the story is a small boy named Paul. Paul will eventually die because of his frenetic riding of his toy rocking-horse, a rocking-horse he rides to frenzy because when he does, it provides him with the names of winners of horse races. However, Paul's death is actually the result of the characterization of his mother as written by Lawrence. In the character of Paul's mother, Lawrence provides us with a..."

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