Okay so the reason a lot of people are Mad About What C.S. Lewis Did To Susan is that there's a bit in the last book where everyone who had once traveled to Narnia returns there, except for Susan. We are then informed that Susan is "no longer a friend of Narnia" and so cannot return, that she insists it was just a game they made up when they were children, and that she has grown up to be a very silly young woman who only cares about lipstick and nylons and invitations. It's a very blatant Christian allegory about denying Christ and caring about the physical world over the spiritual world and so on and so forth; it has also, understandably, made a lot of feminists Big Mad. (For the record: I, too, am Big Mad about it.)

Anyway C.S. Lewis is an unreliable narrator (no, really, he genuinely is) and so are the people relaying the information about what Susan's like now, and I want to dropkick all three of them to the moon and then go explore why Susan's so interested in fashion and boys and parties and all that jazz. I think there are good reasons for it! I just think that those reasons are... not what Lewis probably intended for them to be.