Allie had written poems all over his fielder’s mitt in green ink, so as to have something to read when he was bored in the outfield. Holden can’t think of anything worth describing, except for his brother Allie’s left-handed baseball mitt. They intend to see a movie, but both Ackley and Mal have seen the one showing, so the boys just have hamburgers, play pinball, then catch a bus back to Pencey.Īfter returning to the dorms and kicking Ackley out of his room, Holden starts writing the descriptive essay for Stradlater. This is no surprise, since Ackley complains about everyone. Ackley comes along, but not before complaining about having to go with Mal. Holden invites Ackley along as a favor, since Ackley never goes out on Saturdays. Stradlater has already left for his date with Jane Gallagher, so Holden decides to take a bus into town with his friend, Mal Brossard, to watch a "lousy movie" and get a burger.
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In the whiteness, everything looks beautiful. After dinner, the students go outside to three inches of fresh snow and start horsing around, which Holden enjoys a great deal. Sinus any of the air cavities in the skull opening into the nasal cavities.It’s Saturday night, and the steak dinner they serve every Saturday at Pencey is, as usual, no good. Galoshes overshoes, especially high, warmly lined overshoes of rubber and fabric.īridge any of various card games, for two pairs of players, that developed from whist.īoardwalk a walk, often made of wood and elevated, placed along a beach or seafront. Depending on the date of Holden's birthday - and his reliability with numbers - we might make an educated guess as to the time of the action in the novel: apparently, Holden is in California, narrating the novel, sometime around the middle of 1950, probably reporting the events of late 1949.īrown Betty a baked apple pudding made with butter, spices, sugar, and bread crumbs. We might suspect that such an intimate topic will be wasted on Stradlater.Ĭhronologically, Holden was 13 when 11-year-old Allie died on July 18, 1946. He keeps Allie's baseball glove with him and often thinks about his brother. Surely, this is related to his feelings for Allie, whom he could not defend from death. Throughout the novel, Holden is protective of children and innocence. The night Allie died, Holden slept in the garage and broke his hand while punching out the garage windows. He had the kind of red hair, Holden says, that somehow told him when Allie was near, even when he couldn't see him. Holden tells us that Allie was extremely intelligent and the nicest member of his family. Allie wrote poems, in green ink, all over the glove so that he would have something to read when he was in the field and bored.
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It is significant because it reveals the character of Holden's cherished younger brother.
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They are back at the dorm by 8:45 p.m.Īllie's left-handed fielder's mitt ( not a catcher's mitt, so different from Holden, who wears his hat like a catcher does - backwards) is one of the dominating symbols of the novel. Holden has no date so he takes a bus into town with Ackley and Mal Brossard, where they play pinball and eat hamburgers. Holden suspects that the motive is to impress parents who visit on Sunday and ask their sons what they had to eat for dinner the night before.Īt best, life around Agerstown is boring. The main course on Saturday evenings is always steak. Pencey's fraudulence extends even to the menu at the dining hall. Holden finishes the essay around 10:30 p.m. Holden was 13 years old at the time, Allie two years younger. Allie died of leukemia on July 18, 1946, while the family was vacationing in Maine. He decides to write about his brother Allie's left-handed baseball glove. After a lackluster trip to town with Ackley and another student, Holden settles in to compose the descriptive theme paper for Stradlater.