Throughout the book there were many several times where Alice size was changed and rearranged. When first reading the book and the short film in class I had a way better understanding on the different changes and the meanings. For example in the beginning of the book Alice was way too large to make it through the door in the garden. Alice begins to change size and also changes in relation to all of the people around her. I read in an article how “Going down the rabbit hole has become a common metaphor in popular culture, symbolizing everything to a new world to taking drugs (Schmoop)”.
When trying to figure out why Alice changes size so much it could be interpreted in many different ways. It could mean the emotions she feels to many other things. To me it’s as though Alice might be afraid to grow up. When she shrinks or gets larger, she gets pretty upset and just wants things to go back to the way that they were before. When her size is changed she is always faced with different …show more content…
In Alice her changing size is representing her level of confidence as she is going through this journey and finding out who she really is. We see that when she is smaller she does not know where to start with her thoughts and neither have confidence in trying to get to the garden. She changes so many sizes in regarding to the way she feels about herself. When she was tiny and was interacting with the caterpillar about who she was she didn’t exactly know. When she was bigger and had just fallen into the rabbit hole, she felt confident in who she was, what she believed, and what she