Why does Alice go in the White Rabbit's house?

Answer 1

After she has picked up the Rabbit's white gloves and fan, Alice fans herself and wonders aloud whether she still is Alice or if she has been substituted for someone else. She then realises that she must have shrunk while she was thinking as she has put on one of the Rabbit's gloves. She surmises that the fan must be the cause, so she quickly throws it away. She then slips and falls into the pool of tears which she wept when she was larger.

Answer 2

In the book, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the White Rabbit mistakes Alice for his maid, Mary Ann, and sends her to his house to fetch a pair of gloves and a fan, because her has lost the ones he came out with.

Very soon the Rabbit noticed Alice, as she went hunting about, and called out to her in an angry tone, `Why, Mary Ann, what ARE you doing out here? Run home this moment, and fetch me a pair of gloves and a fan! Quick, now!' And Alice was so much frightened that she ran off at once in the direction it pointed to, without trying to explain the mistake it had made.

Answer 3

In the book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the White Rabbit and the animals helping him throw pebbles in the windows of the house, some of which hit Alice in the face. They turn into cakes, so Alice decides to eat one. It causes her to shrink and, as soon as she's small enough to fit through the door, she runs away.

In the 1951 Disney animated film, Alice eats a carrot from the White Rabbit's garden and shrinks down to three inches, small enough to escape.