One thing is clear: its inspiration. Alice Pleasance Liddell. She was the daughter of a friend of his and he found it much easier to talk to Alice than to any adult he had ever met. She described Alice as a dreamer and a child who knew how to make the most of life. Although Alice was his main inspiration, Charles got along better with children in general. It was obvious that he felt an undeniable love and sympathy for every child who crossed his path. As a mathematician and writer, all his works were somehow out of the ordinary. "His two Alice books remain popular with both adults and children, and have been interpreted by critics as guides to Victorian childhood, as well as sophisticated treatises on philosophy, logic and mathematics." (Stanley 19) Using both his imagination and intelligence, Carroll was able to create multiple writings that contain such complicated and imaginative context. So, the question is whether or not there is an alternative meaning to Wonderland, or whether the Alice novels are simply a figment of Carroll's complex imagination. Like many readers of Alice in Wonderland, John C. Butcher was also intrigued by Carroll's writings and wondered about his social behavior.