Who is High Society from Answered Prayers: The Unfinished Novel and what is their importance?

The phrase "High society" is used to describe a segment of the population that is defined by wealth, status and influence. Members of "high society" present themselves as sophisticated and worldly, and they are often perceived by those outside of "high society" as being both ideal and indulgent...... envied for their wealth, power, and status and contemptible for their lack of connection with the "real world" of hard work, lack of income, and responsibility. The narrator aspires to be connected to and respected by "high society", as its members represent everything that he was not, is not, and longs to be.