According to my own understanding the main conflict in the story (“The Rocking Horse Winner” by D. H. Lawrence) is the cold way of treatment that the mother had with her son. D. H. Lawrence represented this issue in a careless and materialistic mother who has raised her son based on the importance of material things as a response to low love levels. In other words, the mother was always concerned about providing her small son as many material things he wanted, which was, of course, insufficient because they were a poor family.
Paul’s mother raised him with the belief that love brings happiness, which was an important element in Paul’s behaviour because he started foreseeing the results of horse races, which led him to start betting in order to get more money to give his mother.
Misunderstanding love with money can lead to the belief that this feeling can be measured and therefore be bought. To conclude, giving money or presents in order to receive love is an important issue to bear in mind in this materialistic and technological society.
