Lana will not fire Jones because she knows she can pay him as little as she wants and that he cannot quit because it is illegal to be unemployed in New Orleans. Vagrancy laws are applied very harshly to black people due to the legacy of racism left behind by slavery, and Jones, who has been wrongly arrested before, could easily be imprisoned again. George comes across
The Consolation of Philosophy by chance and just happens to find it useful. This suggests that much of human life
is subject to fate, and supporting Ignatius’s belief in medieval concepts such as Fortuna’s wheel, which he believes controls human life.