Alice and Quentin

In alice in wonderland, Alice is extremely confused with time. She is locked in her past and cannot deal with the present or future just like Quentin. Quentin often describes his conversations with his father about the meaningless aspect of not only life but of time. Time is a man made thing and as with Alice, Quentin seems locked with the past of the Old Southern ways. Thus he is unable to adapt to the present values in society. As with Alice he is caught up in the whirlwind of time. And seems predestined to end his life, it is inevitable.