gender-conflict

In this chapter, the characters confront their new reality of being isolated in the Place, a self-sustaining environment cut off from the rest of the cosmos. Lili presents the idea that they are the survivors and seeds of a new future, suggesting the possibility of procreation despite previous sterility in the Change World. The chapter ends with a tense confrontation as Erich vehemently rejects the notion of domesticity and procreation, expressing deep misogyny and despair about their confined existence.