The Rocking-Horse Winner Gender Quotes

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Quote #4

When the two girls were playing dolls, he would sit on his big rocking horse, charging madly into space, with a frenzy that made the little girls peer at him uneasily. (41)

The children are already being prepared for their adult gender roles: The girls for motherhood and the boy for manly ventures.

Quote #5

"Aren't you growing too big for a rocking horse? You're not a very little boy any longer, you know." (50)

Hester seems anxious to get Paul to grow up already.

Quote #6

She so wanted to be first in something, and she did not succeed, even in making sketches for drapery advertisements. (170)

Hester is again unable to succeed at a career.