Narnia’s Most Debated Ending Isn’t the Problem Fans Think It Is

The article argues that Susan Pevensie’s absence from the ending of C.S. Lewis’s Narnia series is a deliberate part of her character arc, rather than the misogynistic mistake some critics say it is. It says her story reflects the books’ contrast between spiritual faith and attachment to the material world.

In *The Last Battle*, Peter, Edmund, Lucy and other Friends of Narnia enter Aslan’s Country after dying in a train accident, while Susan remains alive in the real world. The article says Susan has dismissed Narnia as childhood make-believe and is preoccupied with appearance and social invitations; it links this to earlier moments when she doubted Lucy’s accounts of Aslan and wanted to leave Narnia.