We had known Roland and we had met Susan's name time to time before we met her finally.
I didn't imagine her this perfect and I was sure she was younger than Roland but for my part I wasn't disappointed.
We had known Roland and we had met Susan's name time to time before we met her finally.
I didn't imagine her this perfect and I was sure she was younger than Roland but for my part I wasn't disappointed.
Roland would have understood.
tell you the truth i never thought about her until she actually became a supporting character in book four.
In physical appearance she is pretty much how I imagined (but I might have gotten that from a brief description in The Gunslinger.) Personality-wise, almost the same, although I didn't really think about her that much. She certainly proved to be a bit feistier than I'd imagine in the book, mostly in her reaction to her Aunt's* provocation.
*Aunt Cordelia. Another very interesting character. She inspired mixed feelings in me, irritation, annoyance, yet I felt sorry for her too. I could empathize with her too. (Not that I'm anything like her.) That's another thread though.
I see. It was only me who had had a Susan in her head before I met her. Don't think I kept thinking about her... the picture just appeared in my mind.
Anyway I gave her nice brown hair and not blond.
Roland would have understood.
Well if i remember correctly the Oracle showed Roland an image of Susan cause he interrupted right?
Well I imagined her as about a 23 year old, that Roland somehow couldn't save, or maybe she was still alive. I thought that it would be this Susan that book VI referred to "Song of Susannah"
Though I was wrong in that part...
I guess you would imagine her as whatever the perfect woman in your eyes would look like. I imagined her completely different than the books description. I pictured her as pale brunette with shoulder length hair. Something like this:
I didn't give her a whole lot of thought before Wizard and Glass. I was curious about Roland's past while reading book 1 and 2 but not about anything specific really. I wanted to know more but didn't contemplate about Susan specifically.
I pictured her a lot less whiny.
It'll take a lot more than words and guns,
A whole lot more than riches and muscle.
The hands of the many must join as one.
And together we'll cross the river.
Puscifer, "The Humbling River"
Haven't gotten too far in the series yet, but I always picture her as my ex-girlfriend, named Susan. Blue eyes and red hair.
I guess that means I see myself in Roland when I read it?
When I read Wizard and Glass for the first time I was 13 and I don't remember being particularly shocked when I finally read about Susan. Now, at 26, there seems to be a huge disparity between the original Gunslinger and the Susan Delgado of DT 4. I agree about the whining, and I think some of it is that the Gunslinger doesn't really prepare you for an adolescent adventure.
In the original Gunslinger, he seems to think about Alieen more than the "lovely girl in the window."
http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/...ead.php?t=1612
I suppose if one had started the series with the Revised Gunslinger, you may have given Susan more thought. *shrugs*
She is totally whiny.
I pictured her blonde, natural and beautiful before WAG. Not very different. But I had thought that she would be a very deep character. Maybe a marginal personality...
I recall an old television show, The Virginian maybe, anyway, there was a girl on there with long blond hair, narrow waist, a poofy butt (something under the dress, I believe), Max-Factor eye makeup, (maybe it's Mabelline) but not overdone, like Tammy Fay, skin pure and white, a rancher's daughter, able to ride and rope with the boys, ample cleavage...or are those the memories that developed later, after I turned whatever age it is when boys no longer think all girls have cooties...anyway, I kinda imagined Susan like her...still do, to an extent.
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I pictured Susan with an innocently beautiful face and honey-colored hair. I don't remember being disappointed or surprised when I got to know her in Wizard and Glass.
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”-Mark Twain
Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me....Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.
-Shel Silverstein
I was really curious to know more about Susan when Roland mentioned her. Especially during the first books when we didn’t know much about his background I was thinking what a girl would be like. In general I liked how SK described her both the appearance and character. However, I thought maybe she would be a bit deeper and play bigger role. Like it was said above maybe she’d be involved in book 6 (but that was about Susannah…)...but I still hope there be something about her in the last book (haven't finished it yet).
I thought she would be a lot older, someone who Roland knew as an adult in a town he passed through but someone who he had to leave. I thought she would have brown hair for some reason but I didnt epect her story to be told. I didint expect it was an adolescent relationship but since that is what happended I guess it would have more resonance as a first love relaionship rather than something later on in life.
The image I had in my mind was a faceless blond woman/girl standing in a distant window...and for some reason she was wearing a light blue dress. Not sure why...
Actually, having been sexually molested by a crusty old man, a slimy young man, a skuzzy young man, and a developmentally disabled young man (at different points in my life and starting at age 11), I'm pretty certain I know what she must have felt on that score. However, I am referring to her whining about Roland.
It'll take a lot more than words and guns,
A whole lot more than riches and muscle.
The hands of the many must join as one.
And together we'll cross the river.
Puscifer, "The Humbling River"