The Great Divorce is a short work of fiction in which the narrator travels from a drab neighborhood which is hell to the gates of heaven. There, he sees many of his fellow travelers reject heaven for a variety of reasons. This novel makes some interesting points but the Screwtape Letters are a much better work on Lewis's thoughts on how we choose the crooked and wide path.

an excerpt:

Every poet and musician and artist, but for Grace, is drawn away from love of the thing he tells, to love of the telling till, down in Deep Hell, they cannot be interested in God at all but only in what they say about Him. For it doesn't stop at being interested in paint, you know. They sink lower - become interested in their own personalities and then in nothing but their own reputations. (80)

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