Through these characters minus Royal, we learn that there is already some unrest among the tenants aimed at those living on the lower floors, this is shown through the Wilder’s as Helen is often targeted by people from the upper floors about her children, which might be because the majority of the tenants don’t have children and are rich to boot. There is also Richard Wilder, a tenant from the 2 nd floor who lives with his wife, Helen, and their children and finally, Anthony Royal, the architect for the building and the current tenant of the penthouse. The first is Charlotte Melville, a young mother of a six year old boy who Robert is contemplating having an affair with. Robert also introduces us to some other characters that are going to be important as the novel progresses. We learn that Robert’s apartment sits on the 25 th floor which is quite high up but not close enough to the top as he explains about a party that place on the 31 st floor which is either the top or very close to it. Robert explains he moved into the building at the urging of his elder sister who also lived in the building due to its self-contained nature which suits Robert’s withdrawn personality and that almost everyone living there is quite well off and should be the kind of people Robert should be mixing with. We learn straight away we are following Doctor Robert Laing, who in the last three months has watched the high rise descend into chaos which is where we join him as he reminisces about moving into the high rise which eating the hind leg of a dog. However, the opening line to the novel was probably one of the most gripping I have ever read.
Review: I didn’t know much about High Rise going into it other than I was sure it was made into a movie that I watched and I remember being really confused by it.
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