What gender roles emerge among the men and women living there?How do these roles change over time?

If you’d like to write about Ballard’s High–Rise (CHOOSE ONLY ONE):

• OPTION #1: Marxist: How does the social arrangement and behavior of the tenants in the high rise serve as a critique of capitalism, classism, competition, commodification, rugged individualism, and/or repressive economic ideologies? (Explore only those concepts you deem of interest.)

• OPTION #2: Feminist: As life in the high–rise evolves, what gender roles emerge among the men
and women living there? How do these roles change over time? By the novel’s end, does it offer
a critique of traditional gender roles or does it reinforce them?