Cassandra -- Jeffers

There must be something that I am not getting. I do not know if there is any significance in the woman's name, Cassandra, but I'm guessing there is. I do like the passage about men hating the truth, Jeffers even says that they would rather "meet a tiger on the road." This amused me, especially thinking back on how Jeffers cheated on his wife and probably knew a lot of men who did the same.