WILLY: In 1928 I had a big year. I averaged a hundred and seventy dollars a week in commissions.
HOWARD: Now, Willy, you never averaged…
WILLY: I averaged a hundred and seventy dollars a week in the year of 1928!
– Arthur Miller
Death of a Salesman, Act 2. As he is being fired by his boss Howard, a delusional Willy persists with the fiction that he has been one of the top selling salesman indispensable to the firm. But Howard is not buying it.