The White Queen can move very quickly around the chessboard and Alice sees her running hard at one point. As an example, she says that a man is currently being punished for a crime he hasn't committed yet, but when Alice asks what will happen if the man doesn't commit the crime, the White Queen offers a disturbing answer: that punishments are unequivocally good, whether someone committed a crime to deserve them or not. The White Queen introduces Alice to the idea that a person can remember in both directions-that is, remember the future and the past.
Alice kindly tries to put the queen right, but though the queen appreciates Alice's help it seems to not make much of a difference.
She spends the entire novel in a state of disarray, as she cannot keep track of her shawl and lost her hairbrush in the mess of her hair. Alice finds her extremely perplexing and not particularly queen-like. One of the queens in Looking-glass World.
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