The Rocking-Horse Winner

I've read this story many times, but not recently, and I saw the Goodreads Short Story Club was reading it so I listened to it this time, and loved it once again, the story of "luck" which is defined differently by Paul, a young boy, and his mother, Hester. Paul hears his very house echo his mother'......more

4★ “There was a woman who was beautiful, who started with all the advantages, yet she had no luck. She married for love, and the love turned to dust.” She is so bitter about her lack of advantage that she seems to have lost her capacity for love as well. She begrudges the fact that she has children wh......more