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Stradlater’s composition is supposed to be about a room in a house that can be described.Holden decides to write about his dead brother’s baseball glove because he is deeply depressed about his death and has not come to terms with his grief over the loss of his brother.Allie’s glove, with the green writing on it, is symbolic of isolation.
While Allie’s memory can help him preserve his innocence, this is not enough, for he cannot find real love in the outside world. Besides, losing Allie has brought tremendous pain. Holden also has the common adolescent experience of perceiving that time in school learning mundane lessons feels petty when his entire soul is in flux as it comes to grips with reality.
As a matter of fact, I’m the only dumb one in the family. My brother D.B.’s a writer and all, and my brother Allie, the one that died, that I told you about, was a wizard. She was the only one, outside my family, that I ever showed Allie’s baseball mitt to, with all the poems written on it. He.
Here, Allie is almost like a guardian angel for Holden, keeping him connected to the world. In that way, Allie is the one acting like the catcher in the rye: because he’s eternally dead and eternally innocent, he’s somehow keeping Holden from going over his own cliff—from going “down, down, down.”.
Holden's younger brother who died of leukemia on July 18, 1946, when he was eleven and Holden was thirteen. The night of his death, Holden broke all the windows in the garage and had to be hospitalized. Allie was red-haired and left-handed. He wrote poems on his glove in green ink. Holden idealizes him.
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So what I did, I wrote about my brother Allie's baseball mitt. It was a very descriptive subject. It really was. My brother Allie had this left-handed fielder's mitt.. it represents some aspects of the spirit of Allie. Holden wrote Stradlater’s essay on the glove, and was highly offended when Stradlater did not properly appreciate his work.