consider what happens in his story because of the adults desire for money.what theme about materialism is lawrence communicating to the reader?what literary elements does he employ convey this theme?

Lawreance is conveying the fact that abject materialism ruins the structure of the family. He illustrates this theme in conveying a realistic problem, which is attempted to be solved in a supernaural, magical way.

Anaphora

Behind the shining modern rocking-horse, behind the smart doll's house, a voice would start whispering: "There must be more money! There must be more money!" 

Alliteration

And yet the voices in the house . . . simply trilled and screamed in a sort of ecstasy: "There must be more money! 

His eyes blazed at her for one strange and senseless second, as he ceased urging his wooden horse. 

Metaphor

The child had never been to a race-meeting before, and his eyes were blue fire.

It came whispering from the springs of the still-swaying rocking-horse, and even the horse, bending his wooden, champing head, heard it. The big doll, sitting so pink and smirking in her new pram, could hear it quite plainly, and seemed to be smirking all the more self-consciously because of it. 

Oxymoron

It was a soundless noise, yet rushing and powerful.

Simile

The voices in the house suddenly went mad, like a chorus of frogs on a spring evening.

He neither slept nor regained consciousness, and his eyes were like blue stones.