They both have their ideal worlds which they dream of - for Quentin, it's the Old South, and for Alice, it's the "world of nonsense" which she dreams about after listening to her sister read a boring book with no pictures. Both Quentin and Alice fail to achieve their ideals; Quentin realizes that the Old South and its values do not exist anymore, while Alice realizes that a world of nonsense is nothing like what she had imagined it to be.
Both Quentin and Alice are haunted by their own failures. Alice, having had enough of the ridiculousness of the world she's been thrown into, blames herself for having made a bad decision and not following her own advice. Quentin has an inferiority complex about his virginity, and feels guilty about his inability to save Caddy from bad reputation.
I was also thinking about the White Rabbit and his obsession with time and the watch. And then I remembered how the Mad Hatter and the Hare guy destroy the rabbit's watch, which makes him completely paranoid. So I thought that was similar to Quentin's experience with his watch, but I'm not sure if this parallel holds any significance...
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