You can tell the huge amount of ambition in this story and somewhat greed, the greed for money to buy the perfect dream house. Tay Soon and Yee Lian got so obsessed with this idea of a perfect house of living the good life that they risked everything they had in a unstable market such as the stock market not knowing that stocks can fall as fast as they go up. Personally I believe they should have listened to Tay Soon's mother and should had put their money to better use, besides what's so great about having such luxury clearly this is a case of "Experience and age make the devil wiser than his being a devil." Tay Soon's mother knew that being greedy and easy earned money goes away as easy as it came, easy come easy go. Sometimes is a very good idea to actually listen to the elderly as they are full of wisdom and may see problems such as Tat's and Yee's problem with more experience and actually see problems when they come disguised as money.
I found the title of the story kind of ironic because all the gains Tay Soon made in stocks were paper gains which he wanted to buy his "dream house" and at the end of the story he dies without a penny and the only way he can have his house is made out of paper bought by the woman he never listened to.
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