What is the importance of Carnegie Hall in the collection, Table For Two?

Carnegie Hall, the famous performance space in New York City, is a prominent setting in "The Bootlegger" and serves as a useful point of reference for the collection's themes about wealth, access, and opportunity. Tommy Harkness is extremely defensive of his newfound access to the halls of wealth in New York, and as such he finds himself gatekeeping the behaviors of other people who frequent the location. Arthur's ultimate barring from Carnegie Hall is not merely a geographic exile but also, in a sense, a refusal to allow Arthur back into the halls of extreme wealth and privilege; there is a parasocial space that his ban from Carnegie Hall also precludes him from entering. Accordingly, the hall itself is a useful articulation of the ways in which specific locations carry social indicators with them in New York City, and resonates with other stories about ambition such as "The Ballad of Timothy Touchett" and "The DiDomenico Fragment."