Comparison between Lawrence's stories

Another short story written by D.H Lawrence is called "The Odour of Chrysanthemums". This short story is about a woman whose husband works in a mine.

The story that analized in the previous post "The Rocking-Horse Winner", by the same author, has certain similarity to the story "The Odour of Chrysanthemums", especially when they express the absence of a family member like parents. The first one showed the absence of loving from the mother to the child, replaced by the importance of money. On the other hand, the presence of the main character's husband is also missing in the story. The man in this story is absent either because he is working in the mine or drinking in a pub. He is found death afterwards.

Another similarity is that the main characters experience the death of their relatives: The son of the woman in "The Rocking-Horse Winner" and the husband of the woman in "The Odour of Chrysanthemums". Their death are an attempt to change the perception of the world in both women.