What is Reverend Parris's relationship with the community in act one of The Crucible? Where do you learn this information in the play?

Part
of this answer does depend on whether or
not you are allowed to use the narrator's information
given in the opening
overture of the play. If you are reading this play, the narrator
immediately
gives key information about Reverend Parris and his relationship to the town
and
people. The information that we are given paints a picture that Parris
does not embrace and love
his community, and his community reciprocates that
same feeling. He feels
persecuted by the community, and
that tells readers that for whatever
reason there is definite tension between
him and the people in the community.

He
believed he was being persecuted wherever he went, despite his
best efforts
to win people and God to his side. In meeting, he felt insulted if someone rose
to
shut the door without first asking his permission. He was a widower with
no interest in
children, or talent with them.

If the answer to this
question has to be limited to Act 1 dialogue
and stage directions, then the above information
can't
be...