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The White Rabbit is the first character Alice encounters in Wonderland. He is always in a hurry and appears to be late for his job with the Duchess. Alice follows him down the rabbit hole and into Wonderland. Later, Alice comes upon the White Rabbit's house and he mistakes her for his housemaid. The White Rabbit is ultimately revealed to be a herald in the Queen of Heart's court. He acts as an unintended guide for Alice as she travels through Wonderland.

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White Rabbit Character Description

The White Rabbit is the first character Alice encounters in Wonderland. He is always in a hurry and appears to be late for his job with the Duchess. Alice follows him down the rabbit hole and into Wonderland. Later, Alice comes upon the White Rabbit's house and he mistakes her for his housemaid. The White Rabbit is ultimately revealed to be a herald in the Queen of Heart's court. He acts as an unintended guide for Alice as she travels through Wonderland.

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White Rabbit

The White Rabbit is the first Wonderland character Alice encounters. She follows him when he hurries into his hole and thereby enters Wonderland. He appears to be late for his job with the Duchess. While walking through Wonderland, Alice comes upon his house where the White Rabbit, still in a hurry, mistakes her for his housemaid Mary Ann, and orders her to get his gloves and a fan. When she grows and gets stuck in the house, the Rabbit orders Pat to get her out. In the end we discover that the White Rabbit is a herald in the Queen of Heart's court. The White Rabbit is nervous and always in a hurry. However, he is confident enough about himself to contradict the King of Hearts. Because Alice follows him, he gets things moving again whenever he appears during the story. In a way, he is some kind of a guide through Wonderland for her, only unintentionally. Carroll himself describes the White Rabbit as follows: "Was he framed on the Alice lines, or meant as a contrast? As a contrast, distinctly. For her youth, audacity, vigor, and swift directness of purpose, read elderly, timid, feeble, and nervously shilly-shallying, and you will get something of what I meant him to be. I think the White Rabbit should wear spectacles. I am sure his voice should quaver, and his knees quiver, and his whole air suggest a total inability to say "Bo" to a goose!" Dean Liddell, Alice's father, might have been an inspiration for the White Rabbit. The Dean was always running late as well; when Alice was a child, there was no west entrance to the Christ Church Cathedral and the Dean would normally have had to leave the Deanery, walk along Tom Quad, around the Cloisters and into the Cathedral through the south door. Therefore he was notorious for being late for services.

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