“The Horse Dealer’s Daughter”, by D. H. Lawrence, tells of Mabel Pervin and Jack Fergusson’s relationship. This story shows how unnatural relationships can be if love is not the objective but material goods. Mabel’s lost view of happiness, her plans for the future after Oldmeadow’s failure, and Jack’s life circumstances show how materialism manipulates feelings such as love. Money becomes happiness and stability to Mabel’s after her mother’s …showed first 75 words of 634 total…

…showed last 75 words of 634 total…misery. We see the manipulation in this scene. “No, I want you, I want you,” was all he answered, blindly, with that terrible intonation which frightened her almost more than her horror lest he should not want her (Lawrence 64).” This line hangs at the end of the story, suggesting the perverted nature of their relationship, twisted into a mass of gross confusion, where neither wants each other for who they are, but for their circumstance.