What is the main conflict in Hollywood: A Novel by Charles Bukowski?

In the novel, Hollywood, bemused screenwriter Hank Chinaski observes and narrates the story of a group of ambitious individuals with big personalities and even bigger dreams striving to gain control in an industry where control is a greater illusion than what plays out on the screen. Bukowski satirizes Hollywood's excesses, attitudes and self-obsessions, the novel also explores the conflicts related to the nature and craft of writing and the differences between reality and fiction.