# The Dormouse — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland character guide

> The Dormouse in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** the Dormouse, The Dormouse, Dormouse, Collar that Dormouse

**First appearance:** 0008-vii-a-mad-tea-party

## Who they are

A perpetually dozing mouse who tells a story about treacle wells and drawing lessons, drifting in and out of sense while the Hatter and Hare talk over his head.

## In the story

### [VII: A Mad Tea-Party](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/alices_adventures_in_wonderland_se/chapters/vii-a-mad-tea-party)

Mostly asleep; tells a bizarre, interrupted story about three sisters living on and drawing treacle.

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