A Mad Tea-Party

My favorite chapter in Alice and Wonderland is Chapter VII, "A Mad Tea-Party." Alice always seems to get angry when a story seems unrealistic, while accepting a bizzare world which she has been meeting talking animals and growing taller and smaller. The chapter begins when alice sees a large table with three characters crowded around one corner of it. They see Alice coming and immediately cry "No room! No room!" When the Hatter speaks, Alice observes that "The Hatter's remark seemed to her to have nor sort of meaning in it, and yet it was certainly English" (107). The Hatter and the March Hare speak of riddles with no answer and speak of time which they find no concern or purpose for. They are afraid of the Queen who threatened to cut of their heads. Of course nothing ever came of it. Alice gets frustrated as she always does in this world of make-believe. The third character at the table, the Dormouse plays a very liminal role considering he spends most of the scene asleep. The imagery is fantastic, and Alice walks out of the scene enraged by such unrealistic animals!