Holden notably holds Allie in high regard, describing him to be "terrifically intelligent" and referring to him as a "wizard".
This had a lasting and profound effect on Holden that on the night Allie died, he slept in the garage and broke all the windows with his fist "just for the hell of it."Īccording to Holden, Allie had very red hair which was bright enough to be seen from across a golf course. Allie’s mitt symbolizes the innocence that Holden yearns for, Allie’s innocence was preserved in the mitt. Allie was Holden’s little brother, he got leukemia and died in Maine. This baseball mitt would later become one of Holden's most treasured possessions that he would bring it along with him at Pencey Preparatory School. Allie’s mitt was a very important symbol in Catcher In The Rye, the mitt had poems written all over it.
Allie also used to write poems on that mitt and in the novel, Holden uses that mitt to write a descriptive essay to Stradlater. Allie used to have a baseball mitt, because he was the catcher in the baseball team, which Holden keeps it with him all the time now. Allie was interested in sports and poetry that he wrote poems all over his left-handed fielder's mitt so he would have something to read when he was in the field. Holden seems really depressed with Allie’s death. Holden describes him to be smart for his age that teachers were always writing letters to their mother telling her what a pleasure it was having a boy like Allie in their class. Allie was two years younger than his brother Holden and about three years older than his sister Phoebe.