Allie was to innocent he did not care about winning he just wanted to play baseball. ![]() The most interesting part about Allie’s mitt are the poems, a grown up would not be writing poems and reading them during the game, he would be competitive, and all he would want is to win. Holden wanted to preserve his own innocence but he could not.Ī baseball mitt is a common part of childhood, so it has the “power” to preserve innocence. By dying young Allie stayed out of the phony, adult world. Allie died when he was young, he was still innocent. 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. Allie’s mitt was a very important symbol in Catcher In The Rye, the mitt had poems written all over it.
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