HAPPY (grabbing Biff, shouts): Wait a minute! I got an idea. I got a feasible idea. Come here, Biff, let’s talk this over now, let’s talk some sense here. When I was down in Florida last time, I thought of a great idea to sell sporting goods. It just came back to me. You and I, Biff – we have a line, the Loman Line. We train a couple of weeks, and put on a couple of exhibitions, see?
WILLY: That’s an idea!
HAPPY: Wait! We form two basketball teams, see? Two water-polo teams. We play each other. It’s a million dollars’ worth of publicity. Two brothers, see? The Loman Brothers.
– Arthur Miller
Death of a Salesman, Act 1. Happy and Biff come up with their grandiose version of the American Dream. Lost in a fantasy about their fast track to a glorious future, they see themselves suddenly transported to having their own basketball and water-polo teams and making a fortune selling sporting goods. They are of course deceiving themselves, and are actively encouraged by their eager and equally deluded father.