Lana, who employs Jones and pays him less than minimum wage because he is black, thinks of him as her slave and has literally dressed him as one for the opening night. This suggests that Lana is totally insensitive to the way that she exploits Jones and to the insulting message she sends by making him dress as a slave in a city that has a long history of slavery, and in which Jones’s ancestors were probably slaves. Ignatius thinks that Harlett O’Hara is a fellow medieval scholar because he has seen her with a copy of his favorite book,
The Consolation of Philosophy. This suggests that Ignatius is keen to find someone who relates to his worldview despite generally shuns human connection.