Am I the only one who doesn't care much for Lucy?

[jo]

I was just voting on the favourite characters thread and I noticed that Lucy is the favourite so far. I have some problems with Lucy - mainly that she's just too .. I don't know .. GOOD. I am not saying I dislike her cos it's impossible to dislike someone like that. I am sure I would get along with her and like her :). But also it bothers me that she's portrayed as so perfect .. so much better even than her siblings. Maybe that is just jealousy on my part ;). But does anyone else feel the same?

[Summer]

[King Edmund]

[wood-maid]

[A#minor]

I think that Lucy can be a little too good, as you said. You just want her to make one mistake and be a little more human like the rest of us!
But then she does make a mistake in VDT when she says the spell to spy on her friends, so I forgive her for being a little bit of a prig sometimes.

[Pete]

[NarniaLover89]

I never really careed how she was in the book but I thought she was good in the moive.

[wood-maid]

[David]

Lucy is just not interesting enough to be my favorite character. As for not liking her--well, I wouldn't go that far but I don't she holds my attention much.

Lewis himself, in one of his book of literary criticism, says that evil makes better stories than good because evil invovles energy and drive. That is why the Devil is often, in popular stories, more fascinating and absorbing than an angel. He really wants something and expends a great deal of effort and will to get what he wants. Angels defer to God.

If we carry that over to Lucy, she is a good character and as such tends to defer to Aslan so that her personality is effaced to a large degree. "Lucy sees him [Aslan] the most," one of the characters (I think Edmund) once remarks. So Lucy could say, like John the Baptist, "he must increase but I must decrease." Hence, she is not as appealing a character as Jill Pole or even Polly.

DWL

[Pete]

[carol]

[Áthas]

[Alan]

[jo]

[Alan]