In "I, Too," by Langston Hughes, the poet compares the fair brother representing White Americans and the darker brother representing African Americans. The fair brother denies his brother a sit at the table and sends him to the kitchen. This highlights the inequality that African Americans face. The darker brother, however, rejoices in the hope that he would gain equality someday by sitting at the table and nobody will dare send him to the kitchen again.
In "Dream Variations", Hughes likens equality to a time when he gains freedom to dance, whirl, and rest after a white day (symbolizing the cruelty of racial discrimination by their White counterparts) is gone.
The description that would improve the setting in the passage above best is "Eating dinner one chilly evening, my master and I...". Because it will set the mood of the retelling of his master's story.
