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Alice is the child who follows the White Rabbit into Wonderland and becomes the reader's anchor through its shifting rules. She is polite, observant, argumentative, and increasingly willing to challenge authority when its nonsense becomes visible.

Alice represents the pressure of keeping an identity when body, memory, language, and social rules no longer behave. Her repeated questions and corrections show that Wonderland's nonsense is not merely endured; it is tested by a child's practical reason.

Alice begins bored, curious, and impulsive, following the White Rabbit before she knows what kind of world she is entering. Her early size changes make her fear she may no longer be herself, and failed lessons deepen that uncertainty. Through the Caterpillar, tea-party, croquet-ground, and trial, she becomes less dependent on politeness as a survival tool. By the courtroom, she has grown able to call Wonderland's authority what it is and wake from it.