Holden Caulfield Red Hunting Hat Analysis

Holden himself is very closed off from everyone and it's just a part of his personality from the very beginning. It isn't till Holden had wrote the composition for Stradlater that we breakthrough this wall and distance that he’s created between not only all the other characters in the book itself but the reader as well. As Holden talks about his brother allie and baseball mitt it's easy to imagine a young boy out in the field enjoying the poetry written on his mitt. “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” (Salinger 77). To hear Holden talk about his brother led him to have a new fond tone that had been far
After a catastrophe for the fencing team Holden goes on to talk about the hat he bought and not just only then but he tells everyone about it and is quite proud of it. Holden bought his hat while he's in New York after he left the fencing equipment on the subway. As Holden is undressing he brings up the hat, “I put on this hat that I'd bought in New York that morning. It was this red hunting hat”(Salinger 38). After rereading and looking closer to the meaning of each line it's almost as if he want to divert the embarrassment of his mistake. The next lines of text after he continues to talk about how he lost the equipment. “I saw it in the window of this sports store when we got out of the subway, just after I noticed I'd lost all the goddam foils”(Salinger 38). Holden’s hunting hat helps him to divert the mistake he made to the hat itself. Thinking about the position Holden it it's very easy to understand what he was trying to do when he decided to get this hat. He had just made a very bad mistake forgetting the foils but at the same time he just got kicked out of school and doesn’t have a lot to turn to at the