Both Don Quixote and Neo have something in common: that their everyday world of reality is an illusion. These men in each of their respective narratives is differently situated with regard to this theme, however. In the book, the idea that the everyday world is an illusion is a falsehood, and Don Quixote would be perhaps less amusing but more himself if he would reject the idea. In the movie, this idea is true and Neo must come to accept it. In both cases, however, what the work presents as the reality to which the protagonist must be reconciled is a fiction replete with outlandish unrealities, and we (the reader of the book or the viewer of the film) are expected to know this. And thus we draw a connection with Alice In Wonderland, because as we all know, The Matrix is a "displacement" of Alice's story.
Oh, the connections to be made. ;)
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