Before the protagonist, Paul, is even introduced Lawrence attests to the significance of money (in reference to Paul's mother): "There must be more money, there must be more money" (1). Shortly thereafter, the protagonist furiously rides his rocking chair, which endows him with great authority; after riding the horse, Paul is endowed with a castrating gaze: in response to his "big, hot, blue eyes," "The uncle stirred and laughed uneasily" (4). Lawrence takes a complex perspective toward the rocking chair; while it supplies Paul with greater authority, it also makes him forceful to the point of eliciting trepidation in the other characters. After the rocking horse episode, Paul leaves with his uncle to the race horse -- the parallel between the toy horse and the race horse is significant in that it alludes to continuity between the toys that one plays with as a child and the ways in which one "plays" as an adult. Additionally, Lawrence places great emphasis on luck; early in the story, Paul's mother states that luck "is what causes you to have money." However, although Paul wins an ample sum of money at the racetrack, it is not due to luck but rather to the authority that he has acquired from riding the toy horse. The implication is that by devoting oneself to boyish consumer items (toys, etc.) one can successfully navigate the adult "toy world" of the racetrack. Paul is able to manipulate his uncle into spending money with ease, to the point that his uncle refers to him as "Master." Through the alarming ease with which Paul is able to transition from the child horse...
Although Paul's immediate family (notably, his mother) is guilty of the same superficial preoccupation with money evinced by Paul's uncle, Paul's ability to manipulate his uncle with no gambling experience demonstrate the emptiness of material wealth. Paul's wealthy uncle is gullible to the point of believing his fabricated accounts, and Lawrence (similar to Connell) demonstrates the necessity for viewing the world with a critical perspective.
For the poet, Christianity must be devoid of the cultures of corruption and hypocrisy that prevailed during his time. Ideally, a religion, in order to be respected and followed by the people, must maintain a clean image -- that is, an image that reflects the truth of its teachings, wherein its religious principles are embodied by the people who make up the Church. It is also through "Canterbury" that Chaucer
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