Escape
Example without Escape
When I asked, he said "Danny is my first name and my last name is Lee"
Example with Escape
When I asked, he said "Danny is my first name and my last name is Lee"
In my example, the escape slash allows me to utilize double quotes to allow first person dialog in the text. Without it, in the first example, I had to utilize both single and double quotes to display the quotes for first person dialog in the text.;