Paul uses the title object to enter a clairvoyant state and win money for his extravagant mother in this author’s story “The Rocking-Horse Winner.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this author who fictionalized himself as Paul Morel in the autobiographical novel Sons and Lovers and wrote Lady Chatterley's Lover.
ANSWER: D. H. Lawrence [or David Herbert Lawrence]
[10m] In Sons and Lovers, Lawrence describes these objects as “disheveled,” a label he reuses for some of these objects that are torn at by “the boy” in a story titled for their “odour.” In a John Steinbeck story, Elisa gives some of these objects to “the man,” who later tosses them out of his wagon.
ANSWER: chrysanthemums [prompt on flowers]
[10h] “The Odour of Chrysanthemums” was included as the last story in a collection titled for this Lawrence story, in which the title character is killed by a perpetually-parched orderly in revenge for his abuse.
ANSWER: “The Prussian Officer”
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