What is the significance of sam taking off his waiter’s jacket in this scene from fugard’s "master harold"…and the boys?
it accentuates sam’s warning that someday the two of them will be equals.
it illustrates sam’s sense of duty and his subservience to his white employers.
it conveys sam’s sense of and resignation about his social status.
it demonstrates sam’s willingness to compromise in order to resolve their conflict.

The context of the play "Master Harold and the Boys" by Athol Fugard is bigotry and racism through South-African Apartheid period, where Sam and Hally strife to keep their friendship.

While once sharing anecdotes, Sam warns Hally about being left alone on the bench without kite in the sky, (the kite is a symbol for unity and harmony, and the bench a symbol for apartheid and isolation), then he left taking his jacket off, accentuating that warning of an eventual equality in the future. Thereby the right answer is the 1st one.

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