Breakdown of Uncle Andrew - Lindsay Conrad

I thought it would be interesting to talk a little bit about the characters as we spoke of them in class. I think each plays an essential role in the understanding of Lewis's theology. Uncle Andrew is the character I chose to break down. Though other characters seem to be complex in nature, he is rather simple-minded and cannot take it anything that he has not created himeslf. This makes a clear disconnect with the divine or with anything that could be deemed "impossible". He seems to be a character that would otherwise be considered "pagan". Andrew appears to be an investigator of the sacred, but a creature of the profane. He thinks his smarts got him into the other realms to adventure in new worlds, but his fear of anything unknown leaves him paralyzed and inefficient in the "real world" that Digory and Polly accidentally slip away from.
Uncle Andrew also is a character that cowers easily to power, but is also drawn to serving an all-knowing being of the world. This being was the witch who used him for everything he was worth. Though he is a peon, he may feel save under a person he has raised up on a pedestal. She couldn't save him from any real God or power such as Aslan, but he sure did seem willing to try.
He also seems to be the typical onlooker of the incredible. His utter disbelief keeps him from being able to understand the talking beasts and also gets him buried to be a type of tree for some time. He reminds me of the father in the parable where Jesus rebukes the disciples and the masses by saying that people are saved by faith. I can easily see Uncle Andrew, upon being rebuked by the divine speaking as the father with the demon-possessed son and saying, "I believe! Help ym disbelief".