Lana is obsessed with money and takes advantage of her staff to increase her profits. Jones explicitly links Lana to a slave owner because of the way she exploits him at work. Scarlett O’Hara is the main character from the Southern novel,
Gone with the Wind, about a plantation owner. Jones suggests that Lana is no different from a literal slave owner because if he tries to leave his job, Lana threatens to have him arrested for vagrancy. In this sense, Jones is not free to leave and is, in a sense, enslaved by Lana.