The Rocking-Horse Winner is about a boy who is told that luck equals money, which causes him to use his rocking-horse to bet on horse races to earn money.
Level One: Who informed Paul about horse racing?
Level Two: What is the significance of the rocking-horse?
Level Three: Is money necessary to be happy?
Everyone in the house heard the house saying that they needed money. Even though the entire family could feel it, they never spoke about it. Paul is influenced by that and decides he needs to make money so he uses a childhood toy to choose which horses to bet on to get the money that he thought was really important.
The theme of the story is that money does not always lead to happiness. I don't think that money is needed to be happy. There are people who have no money or lots of money who are happy and people in both situations who are unhappy. In some cases, I think that too much money screws people up. For example, someone who wins the lottery focuses completely on the money they have won and not what they had before and what was important. In the beginning, Paul didn't care about money and he it seems he was better then than in the end.
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