Here is my take on The Problem of Susan. It appears to me that susan is now a professor in children's literature. It also appears that the train accident that has killed her siblings had a great impact on her. She seems to be the only one left of the Pevensie family and looks like she has tried to forget about Narnia entirely. Unfortunately it still presses on her mind subconsiously.
Maybe she has these weird dreams where Aslan and the witch are working together to ruin her family and has reasons for trying to suppress her childhood memories. Maybe its that she blames Aslan and Narnia for the deaths of Peter, Edmund and Lucy. It would make sense because they would not be on a train if they weren't on their way to help Narnia in the Last Battle. Maybe thats why Susan has tried to grow up and move on.
But something else that seemed weird for me was that it appears that the Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis have been published as if this is our world today that a reporter is interviewing any old professor about children's literature but instead that professor is the very Susan from those books. Its an interesting and provacative idea. Imagine if any realistic fictional characters from our world really were here and lived and that all those fantasy fiction books are actually fantasy nonfiction books.......
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