The main connections I may find are that both works share the same writing style: literary realism. In this sense, each story exactly portrays and captures reality as a photograph, thus, I may realise how D.H. Lawrence is depicting everyday and banal events and experiences in his writing. For instance, both stories portray unhappy marriage's reality experienced by two different female characters ('A woman' and Elizabeth Bates).

Then, it is crucial not to forget that realism rejects sentimentalism and shows human beings objectively with the inclusion of cruel reality’s facts. For example, both women are stuck by a feeling of dissatisfaction because they have hade to face a cruel reality. In 'The Rocking- Horse Winner' the woman is dissatisfied because of an unhealthy desire for wealth as a result of her expensive tastes. Then, in 'Odour of Chrysanthemums' Elizabeth Bates lives frustrated and dissatisfied because of her husband’s drunkenness which certainly damage the illusions concerning her marriage.

In essence, both stories depict exactly what happens with human beings life styles and how they may become wasted lives because of our vices (money and drinks). Indeed, these stories are clearly a picture of our past and current events; a picture of ourselves.