# Dinah Mite — A Tangled Tale character guide

> Dinah Mite in A Tangled Tale by Lewis Carroll.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Simple Susan, Susan

**First appearance:** 0006-knot-iii-mad-mathesis

## Snapshot

Known also as Simple Susan, a figure whose presence threads through the tale's social encounters and whose name carries its own quiet puzzle.

## Who they are

Dinah Mite moves through the story's drawing rooms and chance meetings, her aliases hinting at a life lived under more than one name. She belongs to the world of London galleries and whispered asides where Clara loses her way, part of the social fabric that tangles strangers together. Her appearances keep the narrative's human web taut, reminding readers that the puzzles are not solved in isolation but among people who misunderstand, pity, and surprise one another.

## In the story

### [Answers to Knot I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_tangled_tale_se/chapters/answers-to-knot-i)

Submitted a joint answer with Money Spinner, solved the problem correctly, and contributed a poetic solution.

### [§2: The Lodgings](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_tangled_tale_se/chapters/2-the-lodgings)

Submitted an incorrect solution, insisting lodgers keep to the pavement.

### [Answers to Knot IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_tangled_tale_se/chapters/answers-to-knot-iv)

Listed among Class I solvers for a short and neat answer.

### [Answers to Knot IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_tangled_tale_se/chapters/answers-to-knot-iv)

Listed among Class I solvers for a short and neat answer.

### [Answers to Knot VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_tangled_tale_se/chapters/answers-to-knot-vi)

Listed as a winner in the class list for Problem 2.

### [Answers to Knot VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_tangled_tale_se/chapters/answers-to-knot-vi)

Mentioned as one of the wrongdoers who put the rightful winner last, beguiled by the Old Hen.

### [Answers to Knot VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_tangled_tale_se/chapters/answers-to-knot-vii)

Thanked for kind words of sympathy.

### [Answers to Knot VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_tangled_tale_se/chapters/answers-to-knot-viii)

Dinah Mite provides a partially correct answer to the Grurmstipths Problem but errs in concluding the overtaking time.

### [§2: The Grurmstipths](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_tangled_tale_se/chapters/2-the-grurmstipths)

Submitted a partially correct answer but miscalculated the overtaking time.

### [Answers to Knot X](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_tangled_tale_se/chapters/answers-to-knot-x)

Listed among solvers for both problems; criticized for tentative solution in the Sons' Ages problem.

### [Answers to Knot X](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_tangled_tale_se/chapters/answers-to-knot-x)

Listed among solvers for both problems; described as 'anything but simple' and her solution as clumsy and roundabout.

### [§1: The Chelsea Pensioners](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_tangled_tale_se/chapters/1-the-chelsea-pensioners)

Listed among the illogical octagon.

### [§1: The Chelsea Pensioners](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_tangled_tale_se/chapters/1-the-chelsea-pensioners)

Placed in the first class list.

### [§3: The Sons' Ages](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_tangled_tale_se/chapters/3-the-sons-ages)

Correctly determined the relationship between ages at first but made a tentative assumption, resulting in a merely 'honourable' classification.

### [§3: The Sons' Ages](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_tangled_tale_se/chapters/3-the-sons-ages)

Used a partly tentative method to find five possible sets of ages and eliminated four, classified as 'Clumsily Right'.

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