The theme of vision seems to saturate Till We Have Faces, in that the characters are often volitionally blinded by their own consuming self-centeredness- what I wondered about as I finished the book was why Lewis chose to draw a parallel between God and cupid who, in the traditional story, was too afraid of his mother, Venus, to shed the deception he practiced on both her and Psyche. Granted, as Prof. Jensen so often states, that there isn’t supposed to be a one-to one correspondence between the characters in his novels and the characters of the “Christian myth,” however I cannot reconcile the loving and generous nature of God with the fool-hardy capers of one of the lesser gods. I feel, that in some ways, that we are led to think that God is practicing a grand deceit – a vanishing trick in which the Statue of Liberty was never there in the first place. I accept that Lewis’ ultimate goal was to depict conversion from an outside perspective, but I can’t help feeling that the means he used were unfair. What do you think?