“My brother Allie had this left-handed fielder's mitt. He was left-handed. The thing that was descriptive about it, though, was that he had poems written all over the fingers and the pocket and everywhere. In green ink. He wrote them on it so that he'd have something to read when he was in the field and nobody was up at bat. He's dead now. He got leukemia and died when we were up in Maine, on July 18, 1946. You'd have liked him.”
This object seems to be very important to Holden. When Stradlater asks him to write his descriptive English paper, Holden decides to write it about this. It is significant that Holden actually brought the mitt with him to school. Judging from this mitt it seems like Allie would be like his brother. The fact that Holden keeps the mitt with him means that he and his brother were very close. This quote adds to the theme of Holden’s relationship with children.
Allie's Mitt
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