The Rocking - Horse Winner: Story Telling Technique, Beginning vs. the End

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The Rocking -Horse Winner
The significance of the Title
This title of this short story is very important not only to the author but also in the establishment of more meaning to the details of the story (Stern 56) The story bears the key words of the events taking place in the story. The part of the title, the rocking horse describes the nature of the horse that Paul uses in making a furious race as he is in the mission to make his prediction about the winner of the race. The addition of the word winner does not imply that Paul’s rocking horse wins but is an implication that through the riding of the rocking horse, Paul has the lucky experience of being able to predict the winner of the race.
Story Telling Technique
This particular story is told in the form of a narration of the events which are taking place in the play. Most of the ideas and the events taking place in the story are availed to the audience through narration. Descriptively, the story narrator is a third person individual who has had experience with the events characterizing the lives of the characters. The narration technique is in such a way that it covers for all the events with the stories told by the single omniscient narrator (Stern 83). The narrator is not present amongst the characters of the story hence is simply narrating from a third party perspective.
The Tone and Reliability of the Narrator
This story is filled with various elements of tonal variation from the narrator and hence the entire story. From the beginning, there is a woman who is not satisfied with her life because of the levels of dissatisfaction that she claims to have about her marriage. The husband is not able to provide enough for the family; hence, the family ends up in heavy debts. This woman considers herself unlucky for finding herself in such a marriage. This incident is a clear indication of the fact that the story has some element of a sad tone (Catalog of Copyright Entries 107-110). The woman also does not have any love for her children and Paul, he son is fully aware of this idea. He languishes in accepting the fact that his mother does not have the passion towards him like he expects a mother to love her own child. The idea of having to live with the fact that your biological parent does not love you has been used by Lawrence to provide additional examples of the painful feelings that characterize the life of this character. In a tonal shift, some elements of happy tone and hope come into play when the family uses Paul’s abilities and the so-called lack to earn a lot of income in the form of bet winnings, a condition that enables them to be able to pay their debts. At the end of the story, the sad tone creeps in again in the form of Paul’s death.
Beginning vs. the End
Based on the formula which has been used to design the beginning and the end of the story both the author and the narrator wanted to create a link between the life of the woman...