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rait of sexuality in his fiction, Lady Chatterley’s Lover for example, earned him notoriety and torture in career. His novels Lady Chatterley’s Lover and Sons and Lovers were censored or outright banned, and some of his manuscripts were even seized by British authorities for perceived indecency. His creative work and his unconventional yet prescient opinions were misunderstood and misinterpreted during his lifetime. Controversial yet original, D. H. Lawrence is now recognized as a master in English modernism. “He is one of the few twentieth century figures who have altered the quality of our life and thought even if we are unaware of it and even if we have never read a line he wrote. Once we do read him, there is no mistaking the sound of his voice.” (Gemini Salgado, 2005: 94)
　　Though Lawrence is best known for his novels, his short stories are no less brilliant. He is regarded as one of the twentieth century's most important short-story writers. “The final stories of D. H. Lawrence, written in the middle and late 1920's, represent a period of formal experimentation, in which he moved away from traditional narrative realism and the settings of rural and urban England to the realm of the mythical, supernatural fairy story.” (Simon Baker, 1994)
　　The Rocking-Horse Winner is one of D. H. Lawrence’s final short stories. It was first published in 1926 and subsequently appeared in the first volume of his collected short stories. In 1940s, it was made into a film.
　　The Rocking-Horse Winner was the story of a boy whose family “lived in style” (Lawrence, 181), but was always short of money. The boy, Paul had a beautiful yet cold-hearted mother. She did not love her children from her heart, but just showed her love in the manner. Her only concern was the social position that only material wealth can keep up. Aware of her desire for money, Paul was motivated to take action. He not only wanted to help her and win her love, but also wanted to eliminate the voice that haunted the house, the secret whisper: “There must be more money! There must be more money!” (Lawrence, 182)
　　When Paul asked her mother why they did not have their own car and why they were “the poor members of the family” (Lawrence, 182), her mother told him that it was because his father had no luck. And Paul was also told that luck was not money, but luck was what caused someone to have money. He brazened it out that he was lucky because God told him so. To prove that he had luck, he sought for the clue to “luck”. In desperate need of luck, he rode on his wooden rocking horse and believed that the horse could take him to “where there was luck” (Lawrence, 183). Finally he found that when he rode his rocking-horse at a frenzied pace, he could envision the winner of the next horse race. When Uncle Oscar visited the house, he found Paul and the gardener, Bassett’s secret wagering act on horse races and Paul’s gift in predicting the winner of the horse race. Uncle Oscar then joined the team of Paul and Bassett, and they soon made a considerable profit. On the birthday of his mother, Paul anonymously gave her five thousand pounds. Instead of calming the voice down, however, the voices in the house went mad and screamed in a sort of ecstasy:”There must be more money! —more than ever! More than ever!” (Lawrence, 188)