There must be more money According to his mother, the families lack of money all stems from their tendency to be unlucky - his father is unlucky at making money and she is unlucky for marrying him. Paul asserts that he is different because God, apparently speaking through his rocking horse, told him so. He sets out to prove this to his mother while keeping his method strictly confidential. Only his uncle and the gardener are aware that he is posting bets on horse races. After Paul becomes successful, he set the impossible expectation for himself of retaining that luck and he finds he is unable to stop gambling, once started.
Steinbeck wanted to show that, after the stock market crash of 1929, the American Dream was becoming impossible to achieve or even believe in. The relevance of loneliness to “Of Mice and Men’ is shown through the characters. As Curley’s wife says, “Ever’body needs someone to talk to.” Most of the characters suffer from loneliness at some point. Curley’s wife, Candy and Crooks are lonely as a result of being different to the social norm of the ranch. The need to be accepted drives the characters to extreme behaviour for example when Curley’s wife tells Crooks that she “could get [him] lynched so easy it ain’t even funny.” The loneliness she feels means she cannot interact properly or form relationships with the men on the ranch because she constantly has to defend herself.
She would basically day-dream about being rich and wealthy. Mathilde crave for richness caused her pain and downfall in her life. Mathilde is also very manipulative; she would always manipulate her husband to get him to buy things for her. Mathilde was invited to a formal dinner but she didn’t have any dress for the occasion. Her husband was willing to give her money to get a dress and Mathilde didn’t hesitate to take it.
He cheats on her, and when she finds out, it seems he could not care less. But Daisy cannot even leave him because she is too scared, and has no one to run to. Through Daisy’s situation, Fitzgerald is expressing that even when people are treated horribly, they still rely on wealth and high status. Even in society today, we see people deteriorating because of their goals to meet society’s standards. The neglect from her husband causes Daisy to wilt, much like the flower if it were treated harshly.
She attempts to replace him with a man that is similar, her lover Homer Baron, who carries a horsewhip like her father. Paul tries to replace his father as the breadwinner of the family, as his mother indicates that his father is unlucky and this is the source of their misfortune. He rides his rocking horse with fury, a sexual symbol of his mother, to ‘find’ luck. He tells his rocking horse to ‘take him’ to luck. Paul thinks that if he can convince his mother that he is lucky he will gain her love.
Candide Study Questions Candide is driven away from the baron’s castle because the baron caught Candide kissing his daughter’s hand. Candide is the love child of Lady Baroness and a man whom she would not marry because he wasn’t of high nobility. Voltaire is satirizing the differences in social classes at that time period and how important being noble and wealthy was. Candide finds Cuné gonde so attractive because “he thought Miss Cuné gonde excessively handsome though he had never had the courage to tell her so.” (Voltaire 12). Because nobility was such a high issue at that time, Candide’s forbidden kiss was almost like Adam and Eve’s disobedience in partaking of the fruit in the Garden of Eden.
And the obsession is centered around, of course, that there is not enough money to be had by the family. Paul decides to set out a way to get his family more money through luck. He decides that if he rides his toy rocking horse fast enough that he will somehow ''know'' the name of the winning horse in the next derby race. His practice is proved correct and he begins to secretly funnel money to his mother. Rather than be satisfied with the winnings, Pauls desire for money grows opposed to diminishes.
She is looked down upon by the rich for being a governess, and she believes she will never marry Rochester because of his more privileged position. Although Jane makes a success of her life through sheer force of will coupled with a lucky inheritance, the novel does not offer a solution to those in a similar position, wishing to break the bounds of social convention. Jane is seen to be inferior to her Aunt and cousins. As a result of Jane’s parents’ death, she is brought up by her Aunt Reed, who regards her as an inferior due to her late father’s occupation as a clergyman. Jane’s cousin, Master John, discovers her reading a book from ‘his’ bookshelf, and assaults her.
When you read the stories for the first time, you will think that there are no similarities between the two short stories at all. After reading the stories again and actually understanding them more, you will discover that there are in fact similarities between them. The theme between these two short stories share common factors, such as, love, fear and secrets. In the story, “The Rocking-Horse Winner”, the mother is obsessed with money and therefore shows the lack of love for her family. Her son, Paul wants to change her mind so he can gain the love and affection from her by becoming lucky.
This truthfulness however lands her in a bad place as she is disowned by her father for not professing her love. Gonerill and Regan are the complete opposite here as they show dishonesty in lying about how much each of them loves their father. As soon as their father has given them their share of inheritance they become ungrateful and no longer care for their father. ‘And in good time you gave it.’ Here Regan tells Lear that he took his time