In D.H. Lawrence's "The Rocking-Horse Winner," there are
several elements of the supernatural.
As the boy Paul grows
up in a house where money is the major concern of his mother, the house seems to
whisper, "There must be more money." This haunts the
child.
His mother telling him that life is financially hard
because his father has no "luck" indicates that things happen by an invisible,
supernatural hand that makes things good for people or not: with or without
luck.
The fact that Paul knows which horses to choose in
order to win at the races is also fantastical and supernatural in
nature.
Even at the end when he rides on his horse in a
frenzied state, exhausted and not realizing what he has done, so much so that it kills
him, he is driven by what seems to be an unseen force.
All
of these things seem to spring from a supernatural place.
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