Alice vs. Quentin

I completely agree with what everyone is saying, but also, the fact that this land she ends up in after she falls into the rabbit hole is actually a dream, or an LSD trip, either or, parallels that idea of almost a suspension of time, but not really because the rest of the world is still moving forward. Alice is confronted with all of these crazy situations and because she is so Harvard-esque and pedantic, but simultaneously the epitome of innocent, she turns everything into her famous philosophical conversations that she has with herself. However, I can see more similarities between Quentin and the Mad Hatter. He is always having tea because the Queen of Arts accused him of "murdering the time." It's like when Quentin smashed the clock face, but it continued to tick. As a punishment for this "attempted murder," Time halts himself for the Hatter, keeping the Hatter and his bud at the same unbirthday tea party at the same exact time, forever. He is the one who is truly trapped having basically no perception of time at all. He ends up conforming and just accepting his fate to exist in a world where time doesn't exist, but it really does, but he just thinks it doesn't... if that makes sense. I do agree with everyone on the whole Alice and Quentin situational thing, I just think that character-wise, he is much more similar to the Mad Hatter. Unlike Alice, the Mad Hatter can't leave Wonderland because it's not his dream to wake from, it's Alice's. Quentin can't escape from the world he lives in either, because it's not his, the only way he can escape is if he just doesn't exist anymore.