Lucy, Edmund, and Eustace by the painting.Įustace was pulled into Narnia, along with Edmund and Lucy, through a painting in the spare bedroom of his home.

He enjoyed teasing them about it, thinking that they had simply made the whole thing up, and since he didn't have the imagination to do such a thing himself, he did not approve of that.Īdventure on the Dawn Treader Through the Painting

In that year, he went to stay at the Pevensies, and overheard them talking about Narnia. Whether Eustace's family and the Pevensies regularly kept contact and met up often or not is unknown, but he did meet all the Pevensies at least once, which was a year before Edmund and Lucy came to stay at his parent's house. Not hard to understand, considering he had no friends of his own, and was an only child in a world where he and his parents were considered odd because of their ways. Edmund called him a 'record stinker' because of his insistence to write every little detail in his notebook.Īlthough his cousins never realised this, the real reason why Eustace was so vile towards them was because he was simply jealous of their sibling bond. He also likes trains.īossy and nosy, he had no friends. He hasn't read 'the right sort of books' as far as magic and mythical creatures are concerned, as he prefers to read books about science and how things work, as well as some with pictures of grain elevators, or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools. One of Eustace's hobbies was collecting insects, especially beetles, and pinning them to cards. He always wore a special kind of underwear, and his bedroom window was never closed. Although he was by no means a fighter (as Eustace was a puny person, not even measuring up to Lucy's height), he had his own means of bullying people, especially when he is in his own house, and they are just visitors.Įustace was raised by his parents to be a republican, pacifist, vegetarian, tee-totaller (not to drink any alcohol), and to never smoke. Though he was younger than Edmund and Lucy, he called them childish because of their belief in Narnia.Įven with his disdain for all four of his cousins, he was glad Edmund and Lucy were coming to stay with him, as he had a chance to bully them. Eustace was an insufferable boy, who called his parents by their first names, Harold and Alberta, and attended a 'modern' school called Experiment House.

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