Some of them are naked, some clothed - it doesn't make much difference. The Bright Ones literally give off light. This also includes the narrator, who is taken under his wing by George MacDonald, an author like him whom he greatly admired. And the dimension around them is too real to bend for not-quite-real ghosts like themselves the wind, the rain -even the blades of grass - cut right through them.Įach ghost is met by a 'Bright One' who is a native: someone who either was close to them in life or else is a kindred spirit in some way. (This does include the narrator.) They are translucent, though not intangible - they are just solid enough to be hurt. But this world is so much more real (or they are so much less real) that they appear to be ghosts. They know it is their chance to leave Hell and get to Heaven. It is somehow far more real than the place they left. They get to a bright, beautiful open countryside where the sun is about to rise. Our narrator is seated, first next to a poet who manages to generate his own Wangst, and then a man with Great Plans and a broad-minded preacher. Those who board clamor for space despite the bus being half-empty and say bad things about the driver for no good reason. He then describes how half the people in that queue leave it, never to return. The place is full of empty houses, and our narrator sees other residents only when he enters a queue at a bus station. This book comes from the POV of an Author Avatar who finds himself in 'the grey town', a dismal place where it is always twilight (the lights are on but are not welcoming) and always raining, even inside. Lewis about how people choose Hell over the paradise of Heaven, due to being unwilling to make the necessary sacrifices. The Great Divorce is an allegorical book by C. 'There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, in the end, ' Thy will be done.''

The great divorce book