Susan, Queen of Narnia, nylon-clad Floosie of post war Britain

[rowrrbazzle]

dangermom gave a fuller response in a previous thread.

@dangermom

Susan is not damned. She’s still alive; her story isn’t over. She has decided to leave Aslan and Narnia–she denies it ever happened and calls it silly pretend games. She has become interested in superficial, materialistic things–denoted in the book as lipsticks and invitations–but it’s not that she uses makeup and therefore is a bad person, it’s that she’s decided to pursue shallow things over the reality of Aslan.

Now, since she’s only quite a young woman, she has plenty of time to grow up and change her mind. C. S. Lewis was thinking a lot of himself as a young man when he wrote this about her; he considered himself to have been pretty shallow and superficial at one point in his youth too. So she’s not damned–she can’t be, she’s not done yet. She has every possibility to choose her path.