Pat is a fictional character in Lewis Carroll’s Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. He appears in the chapter "The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill." He works for the White Rabbit like his friend Bill the Lizard. Carroll never gave any description of the character other than being a gardener, but some have suggested that he is one of the two guinea pigs who revive Bill after he falls into the garden.[1]
When the White Rabbit mistakes Alice for his maid, Mary Ann, she eats some biscuits that make her grow. The Rabbit thinks she is a monster, so he asks Pat to climb down the chimney to get the monster out of his house. Pat refuses, so the Rabbit decides to send Bill the Lizard to climb down instead. When Bill climbs down the chimney, Alice’s arm pushes him, causing him to fly out of the chimney and back into the Rabbit’s garden.
In the Disney animated film, Pat is replaced by The Dodo, who actually appears in the Caucus Race. This led to a lot of confusion between the two characters, even though they had nothing in common.
Other adaptations[]
1985 television movie played by Scott Baio
1985 television series played by Jon Glover
1999 film played by Jason Byrne
1972 film played by Freddie Earlle
References[]
↑Gardner, Martin; Lewis Carroll (1998). The Annotated Alice. Random House. p. 41. ISBN978-0-517-18920-7.Cite uses deprecated parameter |coauthors= (help)
A New Alice in the Old Wonderland (1895) ·New Adventures of Alice (1917) ·Alice Through the Needle's Eye (1982) ·Wonderland Revisited and the Games Alice Played There (2009)
Retellings
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland retold in words of one syllable (1905) ·Alice in Verse: The Lost Rhymes of Wonderland (2010)
Parodies
The Westminster Alice (1902) ·Clara in Blunderland (1902) ·Lost in Blunderland (1903) ·John Bull's Adventures in the Fiscal Wonderland (1904) ·Alice in Blunderland: An Iridescent Dream (1904)
Imitations
Mopsa the Fairy (1869) ·Davy and the Goblin (1884) ·Gladys in Grammarland (1896) ·Rollo in Emblemland (1902) ·Justnowland (1912)
Reimagining
American McGee's Alice (2000) ·The Looking Glass Wars (2006) ·Alice (2009) ·Alice: Madness Returns (2011)
