Writing Magazine

YOUR MONEY OR YOUR LIFE

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Last month’s story was about love, but this month we have a story that starts with an absence of love. In The Rocking Horse Winner by DH Lawrence, Hester is a woman who should feel love for her children, but doesn’t. On life’s balance sheet she has the advantage of good birth and good looks, but she lacks love and also luck. As always, you will get the most benefit from this masterclass if you read the story yourself: https://writ.rs/rockinghorsewinner

One reason for the lack of love in the household is worry about lack of money, to the extent that money has become a bit of an obsession and this obsession runs through the story. Hester is convinced that she doesn’t have enough money because she is unlucky and has married unluckily. As the story progresses it emerges that in her mind money, luck and love are all closely linked.

Because she had

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