The Way They See It

When reading The Great Divorce, I feel that Lewis was giving us different interpretations of heaven from the points of views of many different people. I felt that many characters in the book were trying to justify they way they see Heaven. The main character did not look at a solid person's face until he saw George. I feel that this was because he felt comfortable with him and that is how he saw heaven, and George could best explain Heaven to him. The solid people were particularly chosen to talk to certain ghosts, because then they would have had a greater chance of really embracing the idea of Heaven and its true purpose rather than what they think. For example, the Big Ghost thought that he deserved to be there because of his works, rather than that the solid person did not deserve to be there because he murdered someone. In the next chapter, the Fat Ghost is so lost in looking for Heaven, that he is missing it right in front of him. I think many of these interpretations are exactly how many people see Heaven. I also found it intriguing how curious the ghosts were. The main character just decides to join the line to the bus, because there is nothing else going on in the town. We do not know where he came from or what he was doing before, but he just decided to get in line. I wonder why all the other people chose to get in line. Some, like the main character seem to not know where they were going, but when they got there, they immediately knew, however some did not want to be there. For example, the woman that was hiding from the solid person wanted to be alone. I felt that she wanted to be there, but not want people to know it. It's possible that she was embarrassed to be there. I feel that many times we do not want people to know what we are doing. It was like she was hiding her faith as many of us do. I think the point of the line and the curiosity of it was to point the people in the right direction of their hidden desires of happiness.