Screwtape Letters Chapters 19-21

I was really entertained with chapter 20. Screwtape’s focus is to find a wife so that he could be unchaste. He goes on to say on page 105, ‘… I would like to give you some hint about the type of woman – I mean physical type – which he should be encouraged…’. Screwtape wants Wormwood to find a woman by looks rather than who she is (ughs men!). He did have one comment that I found funny because with some people in society today it is the same. On page 107 he said ‘… the figures in the popular art are falsely drawn; the real women in bathing suits or tights are actually pinched in and propped up to make them appear firmer and more slender and more boyish than nature allows a full-grown woman to be’. I agree that people being brushed in and not being real makes it more difficult to find these sorts of women. I didn’t understand the purpose of the ending when he talked about the two imaginary women in a man’s mind, but I think he’s trying to say something about if he is a Christian and he loves the infernal Venus they could marry. Not too sure, but looking forward to reading what other people have to say about this.