The conversations which take place between these two men are all pretty much the same - Benjamin attempts to make a nice, tourist-like comment, and Ronnie rebuts with heated racist comments. For example, when Benjamin asks Ronnie for directions to a place in Chinatown, the response is a barrage of aggression stemming from his lack of comfort with how he fits into his own nationality.
RONNIE: "13 Doyers St.?- Like you don't know where that is?.
BENJAMIN: Of course I don't know! That's why I'm asking--.
RONNIE: C'mon, you trailer-park refugee. You don't know that's Chinatown?.
BENJAMIN: Sure I know that's Chinatown That doesn't mean I know where Chinatown--.
RONNIE: So why is it that you picked me, of all the street musicians in the City "to point you in the direction of Chinatown?. What are you going to ask me next? Where you can find the best dim sum in the City? Whether I can direct you to an opium den? Or do I happen to know how you can meet Miss Saigon for a night of nookie-nookie followed by a good old-fashioned ritual suicide? Now get your white ass off my sidewalk Why don't you go back home and race bullfrogs, or whatever it is you do for--?.
Although the rest of the play is more dialogue of the same nature with nothing solved between these two, eventually Benjamin leaves Ronnie to his violin and steps downstage to perform a monologue to the audience about how he was, in truth, also an Asian American, his full name being Benjamin Wong. Adopted by Chinese parents at a young age, he was visiting New York in search of his late father's house, the place his father had been born, and "swore he would never return- to. This was the way Benjamin was learning about his own self and identity. .
In the rest of the play, the men discuss several elements of race and equality, all the while, Ronnie never truly giving Benjamin a chance to explain himself or ever understanding anything but the physical differences between himself and Benjamin.
