The Rocking-Horse Winner
by D. H. Lawrence

The Rocking-Horse Winner: Genre 1 key example

Genre
Explanation and Analysis:

"The Rocking-Horse Winner" is a modernist short story, but it's also a family drama. Novels and short stories that detail the ins and outs of domestic life during the Modernist era often make statements about social or political issues by exposing the effect such issues have on the private lives of individuals. In this way, they provide social commentary by essentially shining a light on that which is normally private. In the case of "The Rocking-Horse Winner," Lawrence investigates the tension surrounding money in Hester and Paul's family as a way of dramatizing the influence of society's consumerist and greedy mentality.