In "The Rocking-Horse Winner" how old is Paul when he dies?

This is an interesting question, because I don't think that the
story ever actually says specifically how old he is, so we just have to use clues throughout to
guess.  When Paul is introduced, it only says that there was "a boy," so no clues there.  Later,
his governess, or nurse, said that he was "growing beyond her," and that he was too old to be
playing on a rocking-horse anyway.  He is old enough to speak, reason things out in his head, and
think abstractly, as reflected in his conversation with his mother about luck.  The story covers
over the span of a year, and after Paul gives his mother the money, it mentions that he would be
going to his father's private school in the fall.

Based on all of
these clues, we can gather that he is at least 5 years old, probably 6 or 7.  Children who were
being cared for by their nursery governess usually left their care when they went to school,
between ages 5-8.  And since the story starts with him just barely growing out of that phase, and
ends with him preparing to go to school the next fall, that is a good age to put him into.  All
of this is using inference, or educated guessing, through taking the clues in the text to try to
piece together a fact that isn't actually there.  I hope that those thoughts helped; good
luck!