The Rocking Horse Winner vs the Destructor

The Rocking one dollar bill Winner by DH Lawrence and The Destructors by whole meal flour Greene were some(prenominal)(prenominal) written post wars where poverty was abundant. These two fiction stories be written around the evil caused by naturalism. Comparing the two victimize stories, we find that greed causes destruction. In both stories, the protagonist is a male child non yet grown. Lawrence creates a son, Paul, who strives to change the luck of not solo himself, besides that of his entire family. Greene tells of a boy, T, who leads a gang into destructing the home of a wealthy man just because it still stands where others around it were supplanted by bombs from the war.This leads to the obvious contrast that one boy is attempting the acquisition of material goods sequence the other is attempting the destruction of material goods. Still it remains that in both cases, greed causes destruction of great value. Similarly in both stories, the boys mothers could be seen as the antagonist because they both are actu every last(predicate)y materialistic and impress on the children the need to be seen as separate than others. Lawrence describes Pauls mother, felt themselves superior to anyone in their neighborhood and Greene describes Ts mother, considered herself better than the neighbors. The Rocking Horse Winner is set in capital of the United Kingdom soon after founding War I. The Destructor was set after World War II in a place where just more(prenominal) or less everything had been destroyed by bombs. Both stories are told in the third someone narrative. And both stories end up with the same theme greed and materialism. The Rocking Horse Winner begins by describing Pauls mother, at that place was a womanhood who was beautiful, who started with all the advantages, yet she had no luck. She obviously became a very acerb and jealous person unable to love even her children.Because of her greed and printing that more money was ever so nee ded, the house became haunted and was constantly chanting, There must be more money. In this story the house was typic of peoples greed and never ending desire to always grow more. Paul is lead to believe that only luck shtup bring enough money into the old house so he sets out to find his own luck. He finds that luck by insanely riding a toy rocking horse that takes him there at which charge up he discovers the name of the horse that will win the next adult race. Over time, Paul does make a lot of money gambling, precisely at the cost of his own intent in the end.In The Destructors, a group of teenage boys decide to destroy the beautiful house that sit alone in the middle of a bombsite. The house was symbolic of all they, and most of the town, had lost to the war. The owner of the house had always been kind to the boys, provided T didnt trust anyone or their motives. After destroying the house, he told Mr. doubting Thomas Theres nothing personal. Although the gang destro yed everything Mr. Thomas had and burned-out his lifes savings, they took care to make sure Mr. Thomas was not in the house and was not hurt. So in the end, all his material belongings were gone, but he still had his life.The plot of both stories was about greed and resentment Pauls mothers greed for more and more and never being satisfied and Ts greed of devising sure Mr. Thomas had no more than anyone else. The complication found in The Rocking Horse Winner was found in Paul having to frantically beat up the horse at the cost of his own health in parade to find the name of the next winner. In Destructors, the complication was the time it took to destroy the old house from the inside out without anyone noticing before Mr. Thomas returned from his trip. In each case, the denouement was the destruction that occurred because of greed.For Paul, no matter how lucky he was and no matter how much money he made, he never acquired what meant most to him, his mothers love. In the end, Pa ul gained money and could have purchased material things, but lost his life. And in Greenes story, even though T destroyed the home and all its beauty, he protected the life of Mr. Thomas. So in this case, all material things were lost, but the life was saved. These stories are in some ways very different, but both come to the same conclusion greed destroys. Greed is like Satan, it takes and takes but is never satisfied with what it has, it always wants more. Greed only leads to destruction.