Two stories!

I can say that D.H.Lawrence had a particular of writing. He used to relate some personal features to their writings. In "Odour of Chrysanthemums" he developed the idea of a miner worker and everything that is related to the way miners live. It was not casuality that his father was a miner, and in a way, he tried to describe some situations that he probably lived with his father.
On the other, in "The rocking horse winner” he showed the problems that a kid faced. That kid was worried about the troubles that his mother was living. Those problems were related to money and material possessions' issues. What this kind wanted to do was to get money in order to help his mother. I think helping parents is well, but sometimes children or adolescences do this to get closer to their parents. Nowadays, some parents tend to leave their children aside when they have to deal with economical issues.
I think that this author wrote about some situations that were, are and will be present along the whole human life. Sometimes is surprising to realize how some problems do not change in the society, even if several years have passed.