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" "Where'd you go with her if you didn't go to New York?" "No where. We just sat in the goddam car." He gave me another one of those playful stupid little socks on the shoulder. " Chapter 6, page (42-43) In this part of the story Holden tears the composition up and throws it away angrily. Afterward, he smokes a cigarette in the room just to annoy Stradlater. The tension between the two increases when Holden asks Stradlater about his date with Jane. Jane Gallagher is a beautiful and kind-hearted girl whom Holden Caulfield idolizes. She is a symbol of innocence and purity, and her character is represented by the white flowers that Holden gives her. At the same time in my opinion Jane also symbolizes love, or first love in the ‘teenager era” of Holden’s life. Although the date between Jane and Stradlater is none of his business, he still gets mad because Jane dates Stradlater.

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In chapter 25, page 210, Holden is trying to make Phoebe happy and he takes her to the carousel where they have good memories, "When she was a tiny little kid, and Allie and D.B. and I used to go to the park with her, she was mad about the carrousel. You couldn't get her off the goddam thing."

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At the Circus by Pablo Picasso is a painting depicting two figures on a horse. You know what else has horses? A CARROUSEL. Yeah.

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I found a poem by Dan Brown called Lost, the poem goes "Lost in a world, that scares me to death,
Lost in a crowd, I'm losing my breath.
Lost as a boy, lost as a man,
I need to grow up, don't think I can." This can relate to Holdens thoughts of Allie's baseball mitt. Holden see's that hat and it scares him of what the future holds, knowing that it can easily be taken. He was lost as a boy when he first lost his brother and he is still lost by not letting the regret go.

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Allie's baseball mitt is something that holds a lot of sentimental value to Holden. When Standlater had asked him to write an essay for him that could be anything but it had to be written in detail, he wrote about Allie's hat. In chapter 5 pg 39 he says " I was only thirteen, and they were going to have me psychoanalyzed and all, because I broke all the windows in the garage. I don't blame them. I really don't. I slept in the garage the night he died, and I broke all the goddam windows with my fist, just for the hell of it. I even tried to break all the windows on the station wagon we had that summer, but my hand was already broken and everything.." This quote shows how negatively Allie's death affected him. In a way I feel like he holds on to his baseball mitt to have something of him that reminds him of all the good things about Allie. Holden finds himself blaming himself a lot for the things he didn't do with his brother and reminiscing on what could have been, which I think makes him feel even worse about his brother's death.

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Throughout the entire book Holden makes it his goal to protect Phoebe and her innocence. However before she went on the carrousel they got into an argument because Phoebe attempted to run away with him. He knew she had so much potential and a whole future ahead of her, yet her innocence seemed altered now that she wanted to run away. At that point Holden saw Phoebe trying to reach for the gold ring, he let her attempt to grab the ring and risk hurting herself. Pre argument Holden would've stopped her and made sure to protect her. But he felt that he just needed to let her learn on her own.

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in chapter 13 it had snowed and he took out his red hunting hat "but it was freezing cold and I took out my red hunting hat out of my pocket and put it on I din't give a 🤬 how I looked." this shows that holden uses his hunting hat in any circumstance where he is uncomfortable its kind of there just to comfort him.

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In chapter 25, page 203, as Holden is waiting for Phoebe to come talk to him he decides to go into the museum and meets a couple of little boys looking for the mummies, "I didn't have anything to do, though, till old Phoebe showed up, so I helped them find the place where the mummies were. Boy, I used to know exactly where they were, but I hadn't been in that museum in years."

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In chapter 25, page 209, Phoebe is angry at Holden and even though she goes to the zoo, they aren't exactly interacting much, "She wouldn't walk right next to me when we left the sea lions, but she didn't walk too far away. She sort of walked on one side of the sidewalk and I walked on the other side."

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"Thats all right. we can smoke till they start screaming at us" 55-56 Chapter 8
Once Holden pulls out the cigarette he starts to become suave with Ernest's mother

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"All the kids kept trying to grab for the gold ring, and so was phoebe, and i was sort of afraid she'd fall off her 🤬 horse, but I didnt say anything. If they fall off theyf all off, but it's bad if you say anything to them." I this he's worried she'll fall off of her horse so he has the urge to protect her from all harm that comes her way but he then realizes he has to let her be so she can be able to grow.

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The major conflict is within Holden's psyche. Part of him wants to connect with other people on an "adult level" (and more specifically, to have a sexual encounter), while part of him wants to reject the adult world as "phony", and to retreat into his own memories of childhood.

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Although it isn't Allie's baseball mitt, Phoebe's notebooks share similar qualities to that mitt. In chapter 21, page 160, Holden sneaks into his house and finds Phoebe's notebooks, "She has about five thousand notebooks. You never saw a kid with so many notebooks."

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"Then what she did-it 🤬 near killed me-she reached in my coat pocket and took out my red hunting hat and put it on my hand."
"Dont you want it?" I said.
"You can wear it a while." Pg (212) CH (25)

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"I couldn’t find my 🤬 hunting hat anywhere. Finally I found it. It was under the bed. I put it on, and turned the old peak around to the back, the way I liked it, and then I went over and took a look at my stupid face in the mirror. You never saw such gore in your life." Holden holds great value to his red hunting hat. However, it seems that he may use his hat as a security measure for him, especially with the way he makes sure the peak is turned to the back just the way he likes it [ routine ].

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"Anyway, the next thing I knew, I was on the goddam floor and he was sitting on my chest, with his face all red." Chapter 6, Page (43)

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In chapter 3 when Holden first mentions his red hunting hat he says, " I put on this hat that I'd bought in New York that morning. It was this red hunting hat, with one of those very, very long peaks... It only cost me a buck the way I wore it." Then later on in the story when Ackley mentions how it's a " deer shooting hat" Holden says, " This is a people shooting hat.. I shoot people in this hat." I think those quotes represent how Holden uses that hat as a form of protection from other people. How it brings him comfort and a sense of security.

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J.D. Salinger used a red hunting hat to symbolize Holden's alienation from society, his intentional isolation from others and how it is a way of protecting himself from society's consequences. Holden also uses the hat to tell phoebe she shouldn't change, and to stay confident since Holden knows confidence and self-esteem can be easily broken. He later uses it to symbolize Holden's sense of security and comfort like in chapter 13 " I took my red hunting hat out of my pocket and put it on-I didn't give a 🤬 how i looked. I even put the ear laps down." This quote shows he doesn't second guess himself and the way he may look. Another example is in Chapter 16 "I took my old hunting hat out of my pocket while I walked, and put it on. I knew I wouldn't meet anybody that knew me.." This shows how hes confident being himself knowing he won't be seen by someone he knows.

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Holden's red hunting hat is a symbol of him protecting himself from society, it also is a way of showing his intentional isolation from people throughout the book. In the end of the book it talks about how phoebe took his hunting hat out of his pocket and put it on his head but then asked for reassurance about if wether he was gonna leave or not which shows that it is his intention to leave and alienate himself mentally and physically when wearing that hat, because it protects him from society.

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"I kept sitting there on the floor till I heard old Stradlater close the door and go down the corridor to the can. Then I got up. I couldn't find my goddam hunting hat anywhere. "  Page (45), Chapter 6. After Holden has a fight with Stradlater.

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In chapter 25, page 207, Phoebe gets angry at Holden for not letting her run away with him and then, "All she did was, she took off my red hunting hat-the one I gave her- and practically chucked it right in my face. Then she turned her back on me again."

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When Holden visited New York with his fencing team he decided to buy this red hunting hat. This hat was more than just a hat to him it was also a form of self isolation and kept him feeling safe. He would wear this hat a lot and never actually used it to go hunting which is what made him stand out and isolate him. He had a habit of alienating himself mentally, however the hat was a physical symbol of alienation.

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in chapter 6 when Stradlater is mad at Holden for writing about Allies baseball glove and when Holden asks for the paper he rips it up and says nothing. pg 41

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muiltiple times in the book he mentions his fear of crossing the road for example in chapter 25 it says "Then all of the sudden something spooky started happening. everytime i came to the end of a block and steped off the goddam curb, I had this feeling that id never get to the other side of the street. I thought id just go down, down, down and nobody'd ever see me again." this is just of the many times he metions his fear of cross a street and disapearing or poofing out of existance. I think it hints toward his fear that he is unimportant and will inevitably disapear with nothing to show for him.

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Allie's baseball mitt both symbolizes the innocence from when Allie had passed and Holden's love for him. Allie passed when he was young and innocent and was able to stay out of the "phony" adult reality. The mitt also shows Holden's admiration for Allie's unique attributes and how friendly and kind he was.