Gambling With a Life
Gambling With a Life
“Poor Devil, poor devil, he’s best gone out of a life where he rides his rocking horse to find a winner(Lawrence 803).” D. H. Lawrence ends The Rocking - Horse Winner, with such a profound statement. One has to ask the question, why such a profound statement? This story is about an unlucky family that substitutes their lust of money for love. The pressure for “more money”(793) is constant, intense …
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…the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his own soul (Saint Mark 986).”
Works Cited
Cozie, Charles P. and Winters, Paula A. Gambling. CA.: Greenhaven, 1995.
Lawrence, D. H. The Rocking – Horse Winner. Trimmer, Joseph D. and Jennings, C.
Wade. Fictions: Fourth Editions. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1998.
Riconda, Andrew. Gambling. New York: H.W. Wilson Company, 1995.
Saint Mark. The Holy Bible, Authorized King James Version. Nashville: Holman, 1985.
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