Allie's glove

"You'd have liked [Allie]....He was terrifically intelligent....He was also the nicest, in a lot of ways. He never got mad at anybody" (38).



I chose this picture to represent Allie's baseball glove because Holden cares a lot about Allie, and he identifies with Allie, especially because Allie never got to grow up, and in many ways, Holden "still act[s] sometimes like [he] was only about twelve" (9). I chose to represent this symbol, which represents Allie among other things, because Holden thinks about Allie when he gets "very depressed" (99), and he depends on fantasies about childhood with Allie to bring him out of his misery, which is perhaps the most important thing for a person to have.