Summary
In a narrative tapestry woven with domestic hubris and the fickle nature of material valuation, Dorothy Ralston, a fledgling matron of the suburban enclave, finds herself ensnared in a web of her own accidental making. Dismissing her husband’s prized Aztec idol as a mere piece of grotesque detritus, she barters the artifact for the transient tactile pleasure of a silk shawl offered by a wandering peddler. The subsequent realization of the idol’s exorbitant worth precipitates a frantic descent into social subterfuge when she discovers the relic has been acquired by Cambridge, an adjacent artist possessing both a discerning eye and a predatory sense of avarice. Dorothy’s quest to reclaim the talisman before her husband’s return evolves into a kinetic comedy of errors, characterized by escalating duplicity and the precarious navigation of neighborly relations, ultimately interrogating the precarious boundary between sentimental attachment and the cold reality of the marketplace.
Synopsis
Newly married Dorothy Ralston exchanges her husband's Aztec idol, which she doesn't believe is worth anything, to a peddler for a silk shawl. Later she finds out that the Aztec idol is extremely valuable, but by this time the idol has been bought by an artist named Cambridge, her neighbor, who knows how valuable it is. Dorothy determines to get back the idol from her greedy neighbor before her husband discovers it's missing. Complications ensue.
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