Two Short Stories: The Rocking Horse Winner vs. The Destructor
This paper comapres two British short stories, "The Rocking Horse Winner" by D.H. Lawrence and "The Destructors" by Graham Greene, both dealing with young people reacting to the attitudes and actons of the older geneation, with the young boy in the Lawrence stroy destroyed by the greed of his parents, and with the young men in post-World War II London in the Greene story seeking destruction as their only way of dealing with the world.