Sayso or Sense

In this short story, Israel Gordon has told his wife Amy that the house he is building can have anything she wants. More than anything she wants a basement. But her spirits are crushed when Israel’s father, the experienced craftsman building the house, overrides the idea of a basement and all of her other plans for a perfect house. Amy begins to be suspicious of any of men’s decisions and to believe that men have more “sayso” than sense.