Compare and Contrast of the Rocking Horse Winner and The Destructors

Compare and Contrast of “The Rocking Horse Winner” and “The Destructors”


Graham Greene’s “The Destructors” and D. H. Lawrence’s “The Rocking Horse Winner”, are very different stories, but both contain striking similarities. “The Destructors” and “The Rocking Horse Winner” were both written by British authors and set in a post war Great Britain. Both stories were written after a World War, so the living conditions were still miserable. I will compare and contrast the authors’ choice of themes and characters, emotions, materialism, use of suspense, and setting.
The themes of both stories are developed around the characters of the stories, especially on the children in each story. The characters in “The Destructors” are not as fully developed as the characters in “The Rocking Horse Winner”. The only two characters that Green developed were Trevor, better known as “T”, and Mr. Thomas, also referred to as Old Misery. Trevor was ...