My favorite character was kind of obvious but it was the “patient”. He grew quite a bit as the time past and he came from being a non believer to a humble Christian. Interestingly enough the reason for that was because Wormwood was not a good tempter. Now, C.S. Lewis explained at the beginning of the book that “Readers are advised to remember that the devil is a liar. Not everything that Screwtape says should be. Assumed to be true even from his own angle.” So that clears up that issue. The “patient” as the demons call him used to be very distant from God and had not known anything about Christ. To illustrate this Screwtape writes,”I note what you say about guiding your patient’s reading and taking care that he sees a good deal of his
