LINDA: Just mending my stockings. They’re so expensive.
WILLY (angrily, taking them from her): I won’t have you mending stockings in this house! Now throw them out! (Linda puts the stockings in her pocket.)
– Arthur Miller
Death of a Salesman, Act 1. Willy returns to reality after hallucinating about the The Woman he has been having an affair with. He has gifted The Woman a pair of brand new and expensive stockings, when he cannot even provide for his own wife Linda and family. He lashes out angrily at Linda when he sees her mending her torn stockings. This is Willy being haunted by his own guilty conscience, because the stocking are a reminder of his betrayal of his wife.