# Through the Looking-Glass — Character guide

> Key figures in Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll.

- [Alice](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/through_the_looking_glass_se/characters/alice.md): Alice arrives in Looking-Glass House as an outsider who can see and lift the chessmen no one else notices, then finds herself cast as a White Pawn in a game she barely understands. Her politeness and stubborn good sense 
- [White Queen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/through_the_looking_glass_se/characters/the_white_queen.md): The White Queen first appears as a tiny chess piece scrambling up a fender to reach her screaming daughter Lily, then grows into Alice's traveling companion and eventual fellow queen. She is hopeless at dressing herself,
- [Red Queen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/through_the_looking_glass_se/characters/the_red_queen.md): The Red Queen rules the chessboard Alice is crossing, issuing commands and corrections with the confidence of someone who has never been contradicted. She is impatient with Alice's ordinary logic, insisting that here it 
- [Humpty Dumpty](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/through_the_looking_glass_se/characters/humpty_dumpty.md): Humpty Dumpty sits cross-legged on his wall, refuses to look at Alice, and treats every polite question as an impertinent riddle. He is vain about his name, his shape, and his mastery of language, boasting that when he u
- [Tweedledum](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/through_the_looking_glass_se/characters/tweedledum.md): Tweedledum leads Alice to the sleeping Red King and, with his brother, calmly informs her that she would go out like a candle if the King woke. He is quarrelsome and quick to fury, stamping and tearing his hair when he f
- [Tweedledee](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/through_the_looking_glass_se/characters/tweedledee.md): Tweedledee finishes his brother's sentences and echoes his claims, triumphantly explaining that Alice exists only as part of the Red King's dream. He is cheerful, selfish, and quick to retreat, ducking under the umbrella
- [White Knight](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/through_the_looking_glass_se/characters/the_white_knight.md): He arrives as Alice's last companion before the final stage of her journey, a grown-up who treats her as an equal and insists, with wounded dignity, that he has had 'plenty of practice' at riding even as he topples off r
- [Lion](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/through_the_looking_glass_se/characters/the_lion.md): A majestic lion who fights the Unicorn for the White King's crown.
- [Unicorn](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/through_the_looking_glass_se/characters/the_unicorn.md): A mythical creature who battles the Lion and befriends Alice.
- [White King](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/through_the_looking_glass_se/characters/the_white_king.md): A forgetful king who relies on his messengers Haigha and Hatta.
- [Hatta](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/through_the_looking_glass_se/characters/hatta.md): The White King's other messenger, often seen eating hay.
- [Gnat](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/through_the_looking_glass_se/characters/the_gnat.md): A tiny insect who talks to Alice about looking-glass insects.
- [Rose](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/through_the_looking_glass_se/characters/the_rose.md): A talking flower in the garden who comments on Alice's appearance.
- [Kitty](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/through_the_looking_glass_se/characters/kitty.md): Alice's black kitten who is transformed into the Red Queen in the dream.
- [Dinah](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/through_the_looking_glass_se/characters/dinah.md): Alice's mother cat, mentioned as the mother of Kitty and Snowdrop.
- [Snowdrop](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/through_the_looking_glass_se/characters/snowdrop.md): Alice's white kitten who becomes the White Queen in the dream.
- [Lily](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/through_the_looking_glass_se/characters/lily.md): The White Queen's daughter, a tiny flower-like girl.
- [Fawn](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/through_the_looking_glass_se/characters/the_fawn.md): A young deer who befriends Alice in the woods until they remember names.

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