I keep coming back to this basic: the books are allegory, and therefore, many of the elements within them are also to be read as allegory. Susan doesn't lose Narnia because she's keen on boys and growing up and becoming sexualized--she loses Narnia because she forgets Narnia, and the elements of lipstick and nylons and invitations are the superficial things she uses to fill her life as she grows up, having lost sight of the Narnian values which would be more fulfilling to her if she still had them.
I don't like that Lewis did that to our beloved Susan, but it's like disliking that a beloved character was killed or gave into his/her weakness or what have you. It's nothing to do with "girls being girls and growing older," I think. It's that he chose Susan to be "the one who lost faith," and it could have been any of them, and would have hurt no matter who it was.
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Date: 2005-08-31 03:17 pm (UTC)I don't like that Lewis did that to our beloved Susan, but it's like disliking that a beloved character was killed or gave into his/her weakness or what have you. It's nothing to do with "girls being girls and growing older," I think. It's that he chose Susan to be "the one who lost faith," and it could have been any of them, and would have hurt no matter who it was.