Allie was two years younger than his brother Holden and about three years older than his sister Phoebe. 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 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. 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. At age 11, Allie died of leukemia. Telling someone like Stradlater about the glove is a sacrilege.
Allie is more than a brother to Holden. In Holden's chaotic cosmos, he is an angelic presence, a connection to death but also to hope. Previous Phoebe. Next D. Removing book from your Reading List will also remove any bookmarked pages associated with this title.
Are you sure you want to remove bookConfirmation and any corresponding bookmarks? My Preferences My Reading List. The tension between the two increases when Holden asks Stradlater about his date with Jane. When Stradlater nonchalantly refuses to tell Holden any of the details, Holden attacks him, but Stradlater pins him to the floor and tries to get him to calm down.
Holden relentlessly insults Stradlater, driving him crazy until he punches Holden and bloodies his nose. Stradlater then becomes worried that he has hurt Holden and will get into trouble. Holden insults him some more, and Stradlater finally leaves the room. Though he continues to complain about Ackley, the sympathy he feels for his next-door neighbor is evident when he convinces Mal Brossard to let Ackley join them at the movies.
The most important revelation in these chapters comes about when Holden writes the composition for Stradlater, divulging that his brother Allie died of leukemia several years before.
Holden cannot get a moment alone; Ackley continues to barge in with his made-up sex stories, and when Holden writes the very personal composition about his brother Allie, Stradlater criticizes it and then taunts Holden about Jane.
He leaves abruptly, as though trying to escape the torment of his environment. What Holden does not yet realize, however, is that he carries his torment with him, inside himself.
Ace your assignments with our guide to The Catcher in the Rye! SparkTeach Teacher's Handbook. Boy, did it scare me. You can't imagine. I started sweating like a bastard—my whole shirt and underwear and everything. Then I started doing something else. Every time I'd get to the end of a block I'd make believe I was talking to my brother Allie.
I'd say to him, "Allie, don't let me disappear. Allie, don't let me disappear. Please, Allie. Here, Allie is almost like a guardian angel for Holden, keeping him connected to the world. Holden wants to be for someone what Allie is to him. But why doesn't Holden just tell us all this?
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