The Rocking Horse Winner: Responding To The Story

The Rocking Horse Winner
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In the modern world, the cost of living has increased and this has resulted to the increased greed for money. As a result of such greed for money, people have found themselves in compromising situations that calls for them to make as much money as possible in order to fulfill the desired of their hearts. It is through such action, that people find themselves in problems that they cannot solve even with the all the amount of money that they have saved. Also, such greed has led to the death of other people such as the case of robbery (Yang, Wu, Zhou, Mead, Vohs & Baumeister, 2013). Therefore, the “Rocking Horse Winner” story is a good example of an allegory to this situation in the current world.
According to the story of the Rocking Horse Winner, Paul’s mother is represented as a beautiful woman who doesn’t make good use of money because she loves a lavish life future (Hoile, 2016). In real life, this represents the increased cost of living which have led to people misplace their priorities to live a lavish life instead of saving for the future. Also, the living styles of many individuals have changed and this might push someone into pretense in order to fit in a certain class of people while in the real sense they don’t have the money to live with such a class.
Also, the greed for money in the modern society has increased and this is represented in the story by the obsession that Paul gets in an attempt to obtain as much money as possible in order to fulfill his mother’s wishes. Paul begins with his problems but then goes overboard by obsessing himself with getting money since his mother had already prepared him for a difficult future (Hoile, 2016). No matter the amount of money that Paul wins, the house keeps on whispering for more. This is an allegory of the fact that money can never be enough. Therefore, it is the obligation of every individual to learn on how to plan for the little that they have in order to satisfy their daily needs. Otherwise, human will keep on chasing money forever and will never get enough since needs keep on increasing in regard to the amount of money that an individual has.
In addition, people have died in th...