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Till We Have Faces | Characters

Readers meet the protagonist Orual, as an old woman, preparing to die, stating that she will write down her accusations against the gods. As the book proceeds one becomes completely-absorbed in her words and by her vision. Lewis convinces readers of her reality because of her consistency: she is the ugly little girl who grows up as an ugly woman; at the same time she is kinder than she knows and more selfish than she realizes. He traces her life through the approximately forty years which occupy her reminiscences as she accuses the gods in the first five-sixths of the book. Her courage,...

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