Keith Wilson (essay date 1987)
SOURCE: "D. H. Lawrence's The Rocking-Horse Winner' : Parable and Structure," in English Studies in Canada, Vol. 13, No. 4, December, 1987, pp. 438-50.
[In the following essay, Wilson compares "The Rocking-Horse Winner" to a parable, addressing the story's use of anonymous characters and supernatural elements. The critic also examines how the characters in the story utilize language and how false meanings and unrecognized messages bear upon the tale's conclusion.]
The apparent inevitability with which criticism of...
Source: Short Story Criticism, ©1995 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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