t how much money he had made, he took 5,000 pounds of it to the family lawyer to be given a thousand pounds to his mother, annually. But Paul didn’t end here. He continued to bet and make more and more money. When Paul’s mother received the letter from the lawyer, she got even more greedy. She went to the lawyer and asked if she could have all the money at once. Paul agreed that this would be okay. But the house just whispered louder, with more greed. Paul’s mother had used the money foolishly again, instead of using it wisely to pay off her debt. “The voices in the house suddenly went mad, like a chorus of frogs on a spring evening. There were certain new furnishings and Paul had a new tutor…there were flowers in the winter, and a blossoming of the luxury that Paul’s mother had been used to” (442). Paul’s mother and Paul’s greed amplified: Paul continued to bet to make more money for his mother, and his mother kept spending money that she didn’t have. Eventually the luck, or in this case, the unluck, had to run out, and it did. Paul’s continual confusion leads him to find his “luck” of know the winning horses. Paul is successful at reaching this goal and fulfilling his mother’s definition of luck. The whole belief of his mother’s was the basis for Paul’s confusion. Good luck for Paul would be to see his mother happy. He knew that money was what made her happy. According to Paul’s definition of luck, he would have been very lucking seeing that his mother now had money. However, he is extremely unlucky in not receiving his mother’s love in return. That is why being lucky was so important to him. He wanted his mother’s love. His mother constantly cried out for more, and Paul realized he could not satisfy his mothers need for luck any longer. In one last attempt to try and make his mother happy, Paul sacrif...
