In unbirthday Katz is the cheshire cat half in the real world right I'm not sure but he and alice get married so does that mean that alice is marrying cheshire cat human half
This is a bit confusing so I was wondering if you had the answer
Hi, sorry for the super late reply! I finally had a chance to reread a bit of Unbirthday, so here’s my answer.
I’m not Liz Braswell, so I don’t know the definitive answer, and feel free to consider this wrong…
Katz does say in the original story that “the Cheshire Cat is my other half.” However, even after the Cheshire Cat and Wonderland disappear, Katz continues to exist in the real world without any apparent issues.
Because of that, Katz seems to reconsider and think, “I guess I’m not really the same as them” and that “we are each unique beings in our own worlds.” That just adds to the confusion, right?
If they really were “other halves,” then when one disappears, the other should be left incomplete in some way—but Katz doesn’t seem to experience that. So it makes you wonder whether they are halves or separate individuals. Yet, it also doesn’t feel right to think that Katz and the Cheshire Cat have nothing to do with each other.
For me, the way I make sense of it is that Katz and the Cheshire Cat are originally one soul, manifesting in different forms in the dream world and the real world. Or maybe, you could think of it like the psychological concept of a persona.
This way, their “core soul” is one, so the Cheshire Cat and Katz can be separate individuals, halves, and the same person—all at once, satisfying all the seemingly contradictory conditions.
So, to answer your question based on this theory: you could say Alice married the cheshire cat human half, and you could also say she married the Cheshire Cat himself, and you could also say she married a different person entirely…
Yes, I know it’s a pretty messy answer, but I haven’t found a better one. Help me, Liz Braswell!
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