Lisa Ortmann’s Reviews > The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe > Status Update

I’m noting a lot of distracting errors in the print. I’m reading an original copy from a box set that I believe was mine as a child, but maybe it was Corby’s. There are a lot of long descriptions of the environment of Narnia and all the little tea parties with animals (faun, Beavers) are so charming and British. At this point in the story Edmund has run off to the White Witch, discovering all the creatures turned to stone. I’m surprised again by my empathy for this character that I remember being shocked by when I was a kid. He really was the worst. But now as a parent I see his jealousy and pettiness as expressions of his own diminished self worth, which again, the White Witch has twisted inside him. I wonder why Lewis wrote Susan in the story at all. Her character is so flat, and not really necessary to the plot since the relationships between the other three make up the dramatic tension.