The inversion of the setting in Through the Looking Glass parallels the way in which Alice’s manners are received. Alice speaks very properly, so much that in the first scene it appears that she is even speaking politely to her cats. This continues when when she goes into the looking glass. It is interesting in er conversation with the characters like humpty Dumpy and the King who take her very seriously, so much  so that they cannot understand her. They call her a child and likely attribute her weird way of speaking as because of her youth. Ironically, her speaking is considered very nature on the other side of the looking glass. This shows that even some social actions are inverted on the other side of the glass. The other interesting inversion is that of the human being the “other” that is looked at. While lion remain in our zoos, the lions are looking at Alice like she too should be on display. Might this be a criticism of the “othering” of the animals in our world? My inclination is that all these inversions serve some purpose to mock / criticize the ways in which we (and specifically the upper class since this is what Alice has been brought into) act.