What is the importance of Atlantic City in the novel, Two Wrongs?

Atlantic City is the location where Bill’s play is staged, and the setting for Bill’s pivotal blowup at Frank Llewellen in the story’s second section. Fitzgerald makes multiple uses of the fact that the play is staged in Atlantic City. Firstly, it is Irene and Frank’s train ride together from New York City to Atlantic City that causes Bill to make a scene. Secondly, the fact that the play is opening in Atlantic City means that not only Bill and the actors, but all of the people responsible for producing the play hope that a New York production company will purchase rights to show the play in a more prominent New York City theater. Thus, by setting the play in Atlantic City, Fitzgerald raises the stakes for the altercation between Bill and Frank. Finally, setting the play in Atlantic City also demonstrates the stage that Bill is at in his career.