You and Hap and I, and I’ll show you all the towns. America is full of beautiful towns and fine, upstanding people. And they know me, boys, they know me up and down New England. The finest people. And when I bring you fellas up, there’ll be open sesame for all of us, ’cause one thing, boys: I have friends. I can park my car in any street in New England, and the cops protect it like their own. This summer, heh?
– Arthur Miller
Death of a Salesman, Act 1. In a flashback scene with his two sons Willy promises to take them on a business trip and show them all the towns in New England and introduce them to the finest people. Carried away with an inflated sense of his own importance, a proud Willy boasts of how his car has the protection of the police wherever he parks it. This is clearly not true and an example of Willy deceiving himself about his own popularity and significance.