One of these days I need to reread the Chronicles of Narnia and then sit down and write a thinkpiece about how, while Edmund and Eustace have self-insert aspects, CS Lewis' real self-insert in the series is Susan.
Also, Lucy represents who he wishes he was, Susan is who he knows himself to be.
Also, Lucy represents who he wishes he was, Susan is who he knows himself to be.
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It's not that she's never going to make it there, it's that she has possibly decades left to go (as the last survivor twice over) before she can.
Easy enough error with WWII as the war stories you're told. 1980s kids onward?
As for the usual trap of sticking Susan in a Lewis/Narnia discussion, CS already explained that she was only acting snobby and grownup in The Last Battle, and “lipstick” had nothing to do with it.
His self-insertions are pretty heavy by the time of Magician’s Nephew.