HELP ME ASAP PLZZZ What is the purpose of this conversation in Travels with
Charley?

It was said that my New York license plates would
arouse interest and perhaps questions, since they were
the only outward identifying marks I had. And so they
did - perhaps twenty or thirty times in the whole trip.
But such contacts followed an invariable pattern,
somewhat as follows:
O to show that most people in the United States hate
New York
O to show that most people in the United States visit
New York
Local man: "New York, huh?"
Me: "Yep."
Local man: "I was there in nineteen thirty-eight - or was
it thirty-nine? Alice, was it thirty-eight or thirty-nine we
went to New York?"
Alice: "It was thirty-six. I remember because it was the
year Alfred died."
Local man: "Anyway, I hated it Wouldn't live there if
you paid me."
O to show that most people do not treat the author
differently because he is from New York
O to show that being from New York disrupts the
author's relationships with the people he meets