Alice's Adventures: Chapter 9

"Alice did not much like her keeping so close to her... However, She did not like to be as rude, so she bore it as well as she could." pg.74

(Q) Why does Alice care so much about this women's feelings? She hardly even knows her and the Duchess did not make a good frist inpression considering she was relatively rude. (R) It has been a clear indication that Alice is not afraid to say what she feels because she is always interupting others and inputting her own thoughts. She seems to end off on bad terms with most of the people she has met because she always sets them off somehow. (CL) ALice must have felt that it would not be the best idea to offend her because she already was in a werid situation with the queen. The Duchess seemed to be comfrotable with Alice at the moment as well, and she did not want to upset anymore people.

" 'How fond she is of finding morals in things!' Alice thought to herself... 'Of course it is', said the Duchess who seemed ready to agree to everything that Alice said..." pg.75

(Q) Why was the Duchess being so kind to Alice? Alice did say she was only rude at first because of all the pepper but why is she acting as if she had known her all along? (E) I feel like the author is trying to show that the Duchess is almost acting like a grandmother or a mother. She tells about different morals that don't always make sense on everything Alice says. She also agrees with everything Alice says even when what she is saying or inferencing is clearly wrong, like a gurdian figure would do. (CL) The Duchess must have felt Alice as a child or something of that nature because we did she her with a baby when we first met her in the novel.