Rocking Horse
...ing the plots and the messages both authors are trying to convey. From the Paper: "Both stories convey a message dealing with a different social problem. In "The Rocking-Horse Winner" social pressure to accumulate wealth beyond what is deemed sufficient is addressed by Lawrence. The message seems to in the form of a warning - that if one is obsessed with the pursuit of money and of luck in acquiring money, it will only lead to one's own corruption and demise. (Adams, 2) In "The Destructors" Greene conveys his thoughts on war and human nature." Keywords: paul hester wormsley common gang old misery blackie A Comparison and Contrast of D. H. Lawrence’s “The Rocking Horse Winner” and Graham Greene’s “The Destructors” The similarities and differences in D. H. Lawrence’s “The Rocking-Horse Winner” and Graham Greene’s “The Destructors” (reprinted in Laurence Perrine and Thomas R. Arp, Literature: Structure, Sound, an Sense, 6th ed. [Fort Worth: Harcourt, 1993] 291-303 and 49- 60) are easy for the reader to see. The settings of these two stories are different but two characters, mother in “The Rocking-Horse Winner,” and Trevor, in “The Destructors,” are very similar in that they are both evil characters. “The Rocking-Horse...