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.
Oh, definitely. I mean, I think it was a shock for all of them (and that's the understatement of the year right there), but the gender roles and societal expectations were so different for Susan in England than in Narnia, there's just very few ways to cope with that change, particularly after she's told she's never going back to Narnia.
bedlamsbard calls the Golden Age the Great Summer in her fic, and I think it fits brilliantly.
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Date: 2011-01-14 21:40 (UTC)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.
Oh, definitely. I mean, I think it was a shock for all of them (and that's the understatement of the year right there), but the gender roles and societal expectations were so different for Susan in England than in Narnia, there's just very few ways to cope with that change, particularly after she's told she's never going back to Narnia.