Catcher In The Rye Allie's Mitt Analysis

Have you ever wondered what to do if you're bored and waiting to pitch to someone? Baseball can be very boring at times. But in the novel Catcher In The Rye check out Holden's brother Allie’s mitt. Allie's mitt has many poems stuck onto it and helps him to be entertained while he's bored. In the novel Catcher In The Rye Allie’s mitt is a huge symbol because It represents Holden holding onto things and his emotions, because of this this is why who he has become this grumpy person and takes his anger out on people. The mitt represents Holden's emotions. Holden hates everything (except Phobe,Jane, and Allie) but when it comes to Allie’s mitt he is inspired. Even though Allie died of leukemia, Holden looks at the glove he feels that he is still connected with him through the glove and can’t accept the fact that he is dead. He keeps holding on (Hold-en) to things and not being able to let go because he is scared. Nobody is really there for him. Everybody leaves him. He never felt loved before. “you’d have liked him… he was about fifty times intelligent … he was also the nicest, in lots of ways.”(Salinger 38) In the end all the emotions that Holden has is in the glove, he misses his brother dearly and everyone knows it. Allie’s mitt is also important because His glove is like a “glass case”. When Holden writes an essay for his roommate Stradlater he picks Allies glove.(the assigment was to describe an object in a room) If Holden picked this to write about then this definitely meant something to …show more content…
( aka Hold-en) It really isn’t a good thing to hold onto things. It’s okay to go back and look but you shouldn’t get too attached because you’ll get hurt and have stress and end up like holden. You wouldn’t want to end up like holden because he’s in a mental hospital. Nobody wants to go to a mental hospital and view the world as a bad