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The Rocking-Horse Winner 英语1113班 智怡婷 Content 1 The basic information about the author 2 Summary 3 Analysis 4 My opinion 1 D. H. Lawrence David Herbert Richards Lawrence An English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter . He was the fourth child of his family. His father was a barely literate miner, and his mother was a former schoolmistress. In his early life, he studied while worked. In March 1912 Lawrence met Frieda Weekly ,with whom he was to share the rest of his life. She was the wife of a professor and they had three children. She eloped with Lawrence. During the year from 1912 to 1914, because of militarism, Lawrence was arrested and accused of being a British spy. After the experience of the war years, Lawrence began what he termed his 'savage pilgrimage', a time of voluntary exile. He escaped from England and with his wife spent the remainder of his life travelling. He died of tuberculosis肺结核 in a sanatorium疗养院 in southern France at the age of 44. Main works The White Peacock白孔雀 (1911) The Trespasser逾矩的罪人(1912) Sons and Lovers 儿子与情人 （1913） The Rainbow彩虹 (1915) Women in Love 恋爱中的女人(1920) Lady Chatterley‘s Lover 查泰莱夫人的情人（1928） 2 The Rocking-Horse Winner By D. H. Lawrence(1885-1930) "The Rocking-Horse Winner" is a short story by D. H. Lawrence. It was first published in July 1926, in Harper's Bazaar and subsequently appeared in the first volume of Lawrence's collected short stories. The story describes a young middle-class English mother who "had no luck." Though outwardly successful, she is haunted by a sense of failure; The family’s lifestyle exceeds its income and unspoken anxiety about money permeates(弥漫、充满) the household. Her children, a son Paul and his two sisters, sense this anxiety, and Paul even claims he can hear the house "whispering" :There must be more money. Paul tells his Uncle Oscar Cresswell about betting on horse races with Bassett, the gardener. He's been placing bets usin