Does it bother anyone else that Digory and Polly didn't get married, but Aravis and Shasta did? I mean, it just seems so right for them to have known each other so long and then get married!
I've heard the whole Lewis wanted Digory and Polly to stay almost childish thing, but Digory just becomes old Professor Kirke, and we only see Polly again in a few scenes in TLB.
Maybe it's just me, but it's always been something I wished could have happened.
Digory and Polly's situation is really quite realistic: a boy and girl go through some experiences together, and then grow apart. But then they stay in contact, and are friends as they age. From the comments made in LB, we know that the children call Polly 'Aunt', and she is clearly part of the group of Friends of Narnia.
[It's also important to look at it in the context of World War 1, when many young men were killed in battle, and many young women remained single. So Polly's singleness in later life might well be due to losing her sweetheart, and the reduced number of men in that generation; friendship with other men didn't necessarily lead to marriage]
I'm sorry that you are disappointed at the lack of romance in this book, but the children are only 12 and 11 (both pre-teen, in today's terms).
Shasta and Aravis, by contrast, are 14 and 13 (making Aravis old enough for her father to marry her off). In this case a boy and girl go through some experiences together and separately, then stay in contact, and some years later decide to get married (Lewis jokes that it is so that they can keep arguing).
If Lewis had married off both pairs, I think there would have been some complaints that he wasn't realistic, because not all pairs of boy/girl friends end up marrying each other!
There, shining in the sunrise, larger than they had seen him before, shaking his mane (for it had apparently grown again) stood Aslan himself.
"...when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards."
