CHARLEY: You want a job?
WILLY: I got a job, I told you that. (After a slight pause.) What the hell are you offering me a job for?
CHARLEY: Don’t get insulted.
WILLY: Don’t insult me.
– Arthur Miller
Death of a Salesman, Act 1. Willy allows stubborn pride stop him from accepting one of the things that would help him and his family most: a job. He becomes angry and irrationally refuses his businessman friend Charley’s offer of work.