The story is set in the fictive kingdom of Glome, a primitive city-state whose people have occasional contact with civilized Hellenistic Greece. The first part of the book is written from the perspective of Psyche's older sister Orual, as an accusation against the gods. This was his last novel, and he considered it his most mature, written in conjunction with his wife, Joy Davidman. As a consequence, his retelling of the story is characterized by a highly developed character, the narrator, with the reader being drawn into her reasoning and her emotions. This story had haunted Lewis all his life, because he realized that some of the main characters' actions were illogical. It is a retelling of Cupid and Psyche, based on its telling in a chapter of The Golden Ass of Apuleius. Furthermore, Psyche begins life as a human and becomes divine.Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold is a 1956 novel by C. To Orual, who’s sure she has died, Psyche seems to rise from the dead, as Christ did. Psyche also acts as a Christ figure, first healing the people of a fever and then going to a likely death chained to a tree (reminiscent of the cross) for the good of the people. As a result, Psyche is exiled from Glome and must complete a series of nearly impossible tasks set her by Ungit. Psyche wants to be loyal to her husband, but she can’t bear to be responsible for Orual’s suicide, so she agrees to look at his face as Orual demands. Similarly, when Orual finds Psyche in the valley, Psyche’s happiness and independence anger Orual, who wants to be necessary to her life. Psyche doesn’t fight her fate the way Orual wants her to, and Orual feels that Psyche doesn’t truly love her. However, Orual’s love quickly becomes destructive when Psyche is selected to be sacrificed because the people’s worship of her has angered Ungit. Orual loves Psyche more than anything, wishing she could be mother, husband, and master to her, and Psyche returns her love. Psyche’s physical appearance corresponds to her moral perfection, both of which lead to her becoming a goddess in the end. She is the most perfect and beautiful woman imaginable, inspiring comparisons to Helen of Troy and Aphrodite herself. Psyche is Orual’s half-sister, the King’s daughter by his second marriage.
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