Rocking-Horse Winner describes a family living beyond their means but needing to keep up the appearance of having some wealth and social standing. The main characters described in this tale are the mother, her young son Paul, the presence of an uncle who interacts with the young boy and the family’s gardener. The father is not involved with the family much and is rarely mentioned, only in passing. The author portrays a family in …showed first 75 words of 988 total…

…showed last 75 words of 988 total…ill after his final and sucessful prediction of the winning horse which gets his family over eighty thousand dollars; but unfortunately paul dies within days of becoming sick. The reader is left with the feeling of total lack of sympathy for all the main characters in this story except for young paul who was made to feel like the breadwinner for the greedy, shallow and compleyly unlikable parents and his immoral uncle who encouraged young.