Who is Lory in Alice in Wonderland?

Question

I just got cast as her and I am not sure who she is. Who is her character in the book? Is she a decent character?

Answer 1

Oh my god, This is a perfect question for me, I have a very strange fascination with the entire "Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass" series.
I absolutely adore Lewis Caroll for having created it, but anyways...
Alice realizes that she has put on the rabbit's gloves: if they fit, she must be shrinking again. She soon learns that the cause is the fan that she is holding, which she drops hastily before she shrinks away completely. She is now the right size for the door to the garden, but she has left the key, once again, on the glass table. She soon slips and falls into a vast body of salt water. It is the pool of tears that she cried when she was a giant. She sees a mouse swimming through the little sea, and tries to talk to him, but she unintentionally offends and frightens the creature by talking about her cat. The mouse can talk. Alice offends him again by bringing up a dog that kills rats, and the mouse seems to be swimming away, but when Alice calls out to him and apologizes, the mouse swims back and tells her to swim to shore with him. He promises to tell her his story, after which she will understand why he hates and fears cats. They swim towards the shore, and Alice finds herself swimming at the head of a curious party of animals who have fallen in the water: a Duck, a Dodo, a Lory, an Eaglet, and a few other animals.
Lory appears in Chapter 2 & 3; and also fell into the pool. She is said to be modeled after Alice's sister, Lorina.
Now, we are speaking of The Duck, the Dodo, a Lory and an Eaglet.
The Liddell sisters are present in the Alice books too. At the end of the second chapter from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland it says: "There was a Duck, and a Dodo, a Lory and an Eaglet". The Duck is Canon Duckworth, the friend that went with them on the boat trip, Lorina is the Lorry and Edith the Eaglet. Dodo was Charles Dodgson, who had a slight stutter which made him sometimes give his name as 'Do-do-Dodgson'.

Answer 2

The Lory is a bird
http://carroll.thefreelibrary.com/Alices-Adventures-In-Wonderland/1-3
"They were indeed a queer-looking party that assembled on the bank--the birds with draggled feathers, the animals with their fur clinging close to them, and all dripping wet, cross, and uncomfortable.

The first question of course was, how to get dry again: they had a consultation about this, and after a few minutes it seemed quite natural to Alice to find herself talking familiarly with them, as if she had known them all her life. Indeed, she had quite a long argument with the Lory, who at last turned sulky, and would only say, `I am older than you, and must know better'; and this Alice would not allow without knowing how old it was, and, as the Lory positively refused to tell its age, there was no more to be said."

Answer 3

Lory is a character appearing in Chapter 2 and 3 of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, a reference to Lorina Charlotte Liddell, Alice's older sister. Lorina also appears, unnamed, as herself at the beginning of the book.

Answer 4

he is a type of bird, the Lory. i guess it just looks like that in the book.