In The Rockinghorse Winner by D.H. Lawrence, the theme is portrayed to be all about money, or luck - luck leading to money. Lawrence begins the story talking about a woman who had many opportunities, but married her husband and began having bad luck, or otherwise stated as "love turned to dust." The woman does not know what is wrong with her or what to "fix." She did not sincerely feel love for her children, as "the center of her heart was a hard little place that could not feel love. After answering her son's questions about money and luck and stating that "[they're] the poor members of the family," her son goes on to try and make it that he has good luck since she and his father do not. The son, Paul, partners-up with Bassett to go and gamble money at the horse races since sometimes he "knew" which one was the winner, and that horse would always end up winning. Soon after, his uncle joins in after recognizing his nephew's luck. Paul mainly continues gambling because he thinks that once his family has more money that house will stop haunting him with " [t]here must be more money!" Paul appears to be delusional and superstitious, but is oddly always right about his hunches on which horse will be the winner. He becomes more and more haunted by not "knowing" who will be the Derby winner, and rocks away on his horse, "mad." After learning who will be the winner, he becomes ill, but that horse does win. This story is pretty bizarre, figuring that the boy was old enough to not be rocking on the rocking-horse, and the story was even more odd because the rocking-horse would help him to interpret which horse would win the race. There seems to have been something haunting him in the house, perhaps beyond what was expressed. He didn't exactly seem "well" regardless, but he seemed very superstitious in addition. This was a very interesting story, but a bit of of the "norm."