How Does D. H. Lawrence Use Alliteration In The Rocking Horse Winner

The Rocking Horse Winner Fictional Analysis The Rocking Horse Winner is a short story written by D.H. Lawrence, published in 1926 and made into a film in 1950. This story is set in London after WWII, and people were expecting for a better life after the war. Also, materialism plays a huge role in this story because people wanted to enjoy their richness of life and hope to get into the upper class. In the fiction The Rocking Horse Winner, D. H. Lawrence uses alliteration, metaphor, simile, and aphorism to convey the message of the tragedy of materialism. Lawrence uses alliteration in The Rocking Horse Winner to keep a rhythm and add tension to the theme of the story. The first alliteration he uses is the sentence: “There must be more money”.

Lawrence uses metaphor in the sentence “[H]is eyes were blue fire” to describe Paul’s excitement and passion toward horse racing. Paul has blue eyes, but the color of the fire also indicates that the fire in his eyes is cold and freezing. This further tells the readers that the fire in his eyes is not going to solve the finance problem of this family, it is just a fire without warm and heat. Lawrence not only uses metaphor but also simile. The metaphor that Lawrence uses is in the line “[H]is eyes were like blue stones”.This is when Paul is sick and starts to become unconscious because of the pressure of his mother’s greediness and the entire house’s financial problem. Paul has beautiful blue eyes but now they are stone cold due to his own mother. Word such as blue, stone, and cold, are mentioned in the story several times. This entire family lives in a house which only has a fine outside of it but lifeless inside. The children “[look] at her coldly”, this sentence describes the relationship between the mother and her children is cold as ice, there are no emotions and maternal love between the family. Also, when Paul offers his mother money through a letter from a lawyer on her birthday, she did not show any kind of happiness or joy, she hides the letter and “a cold, determined look came on her mouth”. This shows that her mother is insatiable and

Lawrence has a writing style which is intense and lyrical. He uses short sentences to make the story flows smoothly. If he changes them to fancy long sentences, the story itself would become less frightful and gloomy. He gives details through simple sentences and easy words, this make the readers easier to understand the plot of the story and further allows them to think about the story itself rather than the wording. “There must be more money!”, this sentence is short and precise, and it has a rhythm that pushes the story to the next scene. Moreover, it also affects the tone of the entire story. Simple words are fast and easy to read, just like fairy tales, but in The Rocking Horse Winner, the tone is ominous and sinister, nothing like a fairy tale. It then contradicts the joyful fairy tales to the tragic ending of poor