Holden's Desire

Allie: a character in J.D. Salinger novel, The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield’s younger brother and an important role in the novel. Holden had a strong bond between him and his little brother; a bond that no one can understand nor break. Holden really cares about Allie, and his life was dependent on him. Allie was not treated as a real character in the novel, but more like a symbol towards Holden, a symbol of Holden’s desire to return back to his childhood.
At the beginning of the novel, Stradlater asks Holden to write his composition about anything descriptive, like a room or a house. Instead, Holden writes about Allie’s baseball glove. Why did he do this? Before all this had happened, Holden received the news about him getting kicked out of Pencey and doesn’t really care much for anything that happens later in the novel. As Holden starts on Stradlater’s composition, he pulled out Allie’s baseball mitt from his suitcase. He thought...