The main themes in The Rocking-Horse Winner are the pursuit of love and luck. Both of the main characters in The Rocking-Horse Winner, Hester and Paul, are in pursuit of love. This short story act as an umbrella, and covering the themes of Neglect , greed ,obsession, luck and money, Quest ,Deceit and an emotionally distant style of parenting.,” The Rocking-Horse Winner" is a sardonic tale employing devices of the fairy tale and a mockingly detached tone to moralize on the value of love and the dangers of money.” The Rocking-Horse Winner" is Lawrence's distain for conspicuous consumption, crass materialism, and an emotionally distant style of parenting popularly thought to exist in England during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Thus, the story is considered by many to be an example of modernist prose.