Summary “How to dry off” is the central concern at the beginning of this chapter. Alice finds herself embroiled in a heated discussion with the Lory (the parrot) over who knows best how to dry off. The Lory cuts off the argument with the declaration that he is wiser than […]

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Summary As things turn out, the magic cake has a delayed effect. Suddenly, Alice’s neck shoots up like a telescope, unfurling until her head touches the ceiling. “Curiouser and curiouser!” she exclaims. But that is all she says; she isn’t angry, and her ungrammatical outburst is merely indicative of her […]

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Summary Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland begins as a pleasant fairy tale. Alice and her sister are reading a book that has neither pictures nor conversations. Alice finds the reading tedious; she is anxious for more vivid and direct forms of experience. Her boredom and anxiety cause her to withdraw from […]

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Alice The heroine and the dreamer of Wonderland; she is the principal character. Alice’s Sister She reads the book “without pictures or conversations.” Alice’s boredom with her sister’s book leads her to fall asleep and dream her adventures in Wonderland. White Rabbit The first creature that Alice sees in Wonderland. […]

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Alice was the work of a mathematician and logician who wrote as both a humorist and as a limerist. The story was in no sense intended to be didactic; its only purpose was to entertain. One may look for Freudian or Jungian interpretations if one chooses to do so, but […]

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The novel is composed of twelve brief chapters; it can be read in an afternoon. Each of the brief chapters, furthermore, is divided into small, individual, almost isolated episodes. And the story begins with Alice and her sister sitting on the bank of a river reading a book which has […]

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