Heaven is a nonstop hootenanny "where all that is not silence is music". At one point, this devil even goes so far as to complain that the music in Heaven is getting on his nerves - even though he can't hear it, the very thought that they're making music at all hours bothers him (he'd prefer some nice ugly noise instead). Screwtape has practically No Sense of Humor himself, and comes across as a sort of cranky cosmic killjoy. Intending the book as a fairly humorous work, Lewis's goals included both reflections on the nature of evil and an effort to create a different portrayal of the Devil than the sort normally seen in pop culture. Lewis in which a more experienced devil named Screwtape writes a series of letters to a younger devil named Wormwood on how to successfully tempt a man, referred to only as "The Patient".
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