to settle (a debt, obligation, etc.), as by transferring money or goods, or by doing something: Please pay your bill. to give over (a certain amount of money) in exchange for something: He paid twenty dollars for the shirt.
Each individual conceives the value of money for success, perceives the value of money for social status, and senses the value of money as a means to fulfill physical needs. Money became a symbol for the success and fulfillment of the individual as a member of the collective.
In The Rocking Horse Winner, Hester, the mother seems to believe that luck is strictly having money, and when there is no money, there is no luck. Hester's idea of luck meaning money brings forth the two ideas of greed and death throughout the story. Money plays a huge part in this story....