<Tr> <Th> Gender </Th> <Td> Male </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Occupation </Th> <Td> Page </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Nationality </Th> <Td> Wonderland </Td> </Tr> <P> The White Rabbit is a fictional character in Lewis Carroll's book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland . He appears at the very beginning of the book, in chapter one, wearing a waistcoat, and muttering "Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!" Alice follows him down the rabbit hole into Wonderland . Alice encounters him again when he mistakes her for his housemaid Mary Ann and she becomes trapped in his house after growing too large . The Rabbit shows up again in the last few chapters, as a herald - like servant of the King and Queen of Hearts . </P>

Significance of the rabbit hole in alice in wonderland