In this part of the story, Alice meets a curious Caterpillar sitting on a mushroom and calmly smoking a hookah. The Caterpillar speaks in a slow and serious tone, asking Alice who she is. Alice feels confused because she has changed her size so many times that she hardly knows herself anymore. The Caterpillar does not seem to understand her troubles and often disagrees with whatever she says. However, when the Caterpillar tells her that one side of the mushroom would make her grow taller and the other side would make her shorter, Alice hesitantly breaks off a piece from each side. What would happen now? Would she grow uncontrollably once again or shrink into nothing? Read on to discover how Alice’s strange conversation with the Caterpillar leads to yet another curious transformation in her journey through Wonderland…