Within the story titled The Rocking Horse Winner by DH Lawrence, the audience is divulged into the sordid home life of a teenage boy named Paul, where there are three obvious morals told through story style and symbolism. In The Rocking Horse Winner there are also elements of supernaturalism and cold, harsh reality. The first distinct moral in The Rocking Horse Winner is that we must not allow ourselves to succumb to greed and the need for materialistic elements about our responsibilities in life. The mother and father's obsession with wealth and material objects conflicts with their parental responsibilities within The Rocking Horse Winner. The mother and father have replaced love with the constant and overwhelming desire for additional money. It is the responsibility of parents to provide for the children in their family. Young children especially should never feel the need to provide for their parents. The Rocking Horse Winner depicts the financial destruction of an upper-class family struggling to maintain their high status while regularly spending beyond their means. The mother and father have expensive tastes that cannot be supported by their simple joint jobs. To give the best to their family and maintain their illicit status, both parents misappropriate all their resources to purchase materialistic things. The Rocking Horse Winner describes how greed and the need for possessions and money push a member of this upper class family to resort to drastic measures. (Lawrence; The Rocking Horse Winner Study Guide) The second obvious moral of The Rocking Horse Winner is that one often doesn't realize what they have and how they feel until it's gone. At the beginning of the story we learned that Paul's mother had attractive and adorable children. Yet "when his children were present he always felt the center of his heart harden." He knew “that there was a place in the center of his heart where he could not feel love for anyone, not even his children.” Later in the story, the mother continues to show her emotions and love when she has "attacks of discomfort" towards Paul and finds him ferociously riding his rocking horse until he passes out and finally feathers himself to death. death. When presented with the loss of her son, she realizes what she had, a little too late. (Lawrence p.980, 988) The third apparent moral of The Rocking Horse Winner is that even if you have good luck, it will eventually end.