The narrator wrote the story to make known the disagreement he had with his wife Eliza about the social cards that other families had. His wife said that it was not necessary to spend money on those unimportant things and the narrator did not want to accept that his wife was right because he wanted to show that he was the one in charge of his home.
The narrator, regardless of what his wife thought, ordered the cards to be made with exaggerated characteristics so that they were better than those of the neighbors. Then he took them to his house and his wife told him that he had not neighbor to give him the cards. He did not want to pay attention to his wife so he sent the first card to Eliza’s mother.
Then he put them in a drawer and left them there. When he came back he saw his wife using the cards to wrap silk and he was very upset because he had spent money on that. Eliza told him that it did not matter that the cards could be used again.
Finally his wife was right, they did not have people to send him the cards but until the end he supported his idea that they were necessary to have a better social life like the neighbors.
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