The Problem(s) of Susan
C.S. Lewis failed. He failed to clearly say what he was trying to say. He failed his readers. He failed Susan. When I read The Last Battle as a kid, and got to the moment when Susan was “no longer a friend of Narnia” I was shocked. Well, I thought, there are still some pages left to go. I’m sure she’ll be back before the end. But she wasn’t. And all of her siblings and friends, her cousin, even her parents, were romping along through New Narnia without ever mentioning her again. It felt strange, and dismissive, and horrible. Much of the end of the book is about catching up with old...
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