Sears Goldman:

“Unsettling shadows and odd juxtapositions make for sinister and sometimes frightening images/ His Mad Tea-Party is not an intelligible image at a first glance. But slowly the individual images come together and the scene becomes apparent. The Tea-Party floats ambiguously and is interspersed with dots and oversized insects; the latter are, curiouslym the only realistically rendered images. The pocket watch, central to the Tea-Party in this text, is cleverly conceived by Dali as an oversized drooping clock, thus surely alluding to his Persistence of Memory…The background of his illustrations consists of vast, seemingly infinite expanses, mountains, and a few scattered trees, and is perhaps more suitably considered a surrealistic backdrop than a veritable landscape…Yet these are dreams that, surreal as they are, are tinged with innocence and even nostalgia” (xv-xvi)

Thomas Banchoff:

“When Dali faced the challenge of producing illustrations for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, it is clear that he wanted to have something to hold the story together, and that was the figure of Alice herself, the only character appearing in all of the chapters. He already had an iconic figure available: an image of a girl skipping rope…Dali chose this image to represent Alice” (xxviii)
Works Cited

Carroll, Lewis, and Salvador Dali. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. 150th Anniversary Edition ed. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2015. Print.