In short, the thing got so badly on our nerves that finally, with full knowledge of the financial iniquity involved, Lpurchased one of those hopelessly plebeian? affairs which travel under so many opprobrious4 pseudonyms-a Ford. From that day to this I have owned some sort of a car and have thought myself a wise and a fortunate man, and subconsciously I have felt myself rather more of a person because of this possession, for such is the frailty of human nature. Click one underlined phrase in the paragraph at the top of page 3 that shows how the ownership of a car changed the way the author regarded himself.