THE WOMAN: Where’s my stockings? You promised me stockings, Willy!
WILLY: I have no stockings here!
THE WOMAN: You had two boxes of size nine sheers for me, and I want them!
WILLY: Here, for God’s sake, will you get outa here!
THE WOMAN (enters holding a box of stockings).
– Arthur Miller
Death of a Salesman, Act 2. The Woman Willy Loman is having an extra marital affair with demands a box of stockings from him before she leave his Boston hotel room. Stockings are symbolic of Willy’s sexual infidelity in the play and his betrayal not just of wife Linda but son Biff who walks in on Willy during the affair.