The Rocking Horse Winner (Formalist Criticism)

Resultado de imagen para the rocking horse winner The story “Rocking Horse winner” has the plot structure in chronological order starting when the children were little and as they have grown up. The story is being told in third person point of view. It appears as if it is being told by someone who is talking about the family, by peering into their lives. The setting of the story does not have a specific place, but it seems to be in the town area. In the story appears some conflicts, the first is the mother versus herself with an internal struggle, for instance when the mother fells that she needs more money, she does not earn enough money to have the lifestyle she has in that moment, and she wants to have a high status in the society. In real life, all the time people want more money; they do whatever to get it no matter if they do bad things, or if the hurt someone, they just want to have more money. People who have the ambition to get more money cannot be happy if they do not get it.
 In the story the mother cannot love her three children. Another conflict is person versus person, when the protagonist Paul tells to his mother he is lucky but she laugh and she disbelief. The boy wants to prove to his mother that he is lucky and she should believe him. In the society sons have struggles with their parents. Children want to have the approval of their parents in different aspects but in many cases they do not get it. The themes, ambition to get more money; when the mother fills that she does not have enough money, lucky; when Paul wins the horse´s races. The story has some symbols such as, the wooden rocking horse” employs the meaning of the supernatural. It is the place where Paul can predict the name of winning horse in the race.  “The whispering” in the house “There must be more money!” symbolizes the desires to live in upper class of the society. In real life people have the desire to have more and more money but money does not give the happiness.
Why does Paul want to be lucky? At the end of the story, why does he die?
Summary: http://www.litcharts.com/lit/the-rocking-horse-winner/summary-and-analysis
Full Story: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1s3hvkcwikiUJdgRxDTb3wS79DHhUpr3gkjwlu2BNr1o/edit

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