This looks like a painting, but I think it’s a still from a theatrical production.I’ve never seen it before and wanted to highlight it for the children’s early 1940s clothing and the tchochtkes to the side as set decoration.
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She immediately stepped into the wardrobe and got in among the coats and rubbed her face against them, leaving the door open, of course, because she knew that it is very foolish to shut oneself into any wardrobe. |  |
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She did not shut it properly because she knew that it is very silly to shut oneself into a wardrobe, even if it is not a magic one. | |
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“She thinks I’m Susan come to catch her,” said Edmund to himself, “and so she’s keeping very quiet at the back.” He jumped in and shut the door, forgetting what a very foolish thing this is to do. | |
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Peter held the door closed but did not shut it; for, of course, he remembered, as every sensible person does, that you should never, never shut yourself up in a wardrobe.Peter held the door closed but did not shut it; for, of course, he remembered, as every sensible person does, that you should never, never shut yourself up in a wardrobe. | |
Why so many warning about this in the early chapters of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe?
When Lewis sent a draft of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe to friend and fellow Inkling Owen Barfield, Barfield’s wife Maud was concerned that children reading the story would accidentally lock themselves in a wardrobe. So Lewis added these warnings, framing the first two in Lucy’s thoughts because Lucy Barlowe, the real-life inspiration for Lucy, was Barfield’s daughter.
So, there’s the answer in case any of you ever wondered the same thing.
