Significance of The Hotel Lounge

The Holiday Inn in Midland City houses a restaurant with an attached lounge, or type of piano bar. The lounge has a large central piano that is encased in orange Formica and occasionally doubles as a restaurant table. Dwayne Hoover owns a large portion of the hotel and George Hoover is the pianist in the hotel lounge. The lounge is the setting for the novel's semi-dramatic climax.