Because Susan, when she's in Narnia and living there, is gentleness, love, growth, grace and comfort. Peter is magnificence and war (beating up giants, sorting out the Lone Islands, etc), all hopes come true in the harvest, but with the hard edge that slides into Winter (which is Edmund, and Justice, which is not always kind.
Lucy is all gushing possibility, the floods of first melt, the rain-squalls of April. Susan is the kind days of warmth, as the promise of Spring becomes the mature reality of Summer, with things nourished and things grown - and the languidity of summer.
Part of what goes wrong with Susan, I think, is that she's thrown out of Narnia, and out of that perfect summer, adult and in the full of everything she's supposed to be, Aslan's promise for peace and plenty fulfilled, and into WWII England as an adolescent girl.
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Date: 2011-01-14 21:32 (UTC)Lucy is all gushing possibility, the floods of first melt, the rain-squalls of April. Susan is the kind days of warmth, as the promise of Spring becomes the mature reality of Summer, with things nourished and things grown - and the languidity of summer.
Part of what goes wrong with Susan, I think, is that she's thrown out of Narnia, and out of that perfect summer, adult and in the full of everything she's supposed to be, Aslan's promise for peace and plenty fulfilled, and into WWII England as an adolescent girl.