In the article "All Sorts of Pitfalls and Surprises: Competing Views of Idealized Girlhood in Lewis Carroll's Alice Books" by Jennifer Geer, Carrol ( the author of Alice adventures in wonderland) “emphasize the differences between adult and juvenile perspectives of an idealized fairy tale”. The frames are very well taken into consideration in Alice’s adventures in wonderland because it shows her loving, cheerful childhood that will develop her into this “good” women and mother in the future. In the end of the story, Alice’s sister assumes by the dream Alice tells her about, she’s going to “keep, through all her riper years, the simple and loving heart of her childhood…remembering her own-child-life, and the happy summer days” (167). Her sister only sees the positive things Alice has to face while she grows up but in reality it’s not going to be that way. Alice’s experience in wonderland was not all positive since she had to deal with rude creatures, be around violent events and even become nasty herself towards the creatures to prove her point or defend herself. It is analyzed that due to Alice’s experiences in wonderland, she will benefit from while she grows up states the Victorians who defend fairy tales. The critics that disagree with this believe that “adult and child characters in the Alice books, as well as the implied readers, often want rather different things from one another; tale-telling both fulfills and frustrates their desires”. It seems that there are so many expectations from the story that not everything can be please able to everyone reading Alice in wonderland. Carrol however has noticed the violence, angry environment Alice had to face that in his new book “ The Nursery Alice” there is a transformation of the creatures motives to make wonderland a safe, happy, peaceful, and environment. For example the caterpillar will no longer be angry towards Alice and when she kicks bill at the rabbits house, it will be a “little tiny kick”.
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