The Relationship Between Holden And Stradlater

This is showing that Holden has seen it happen before when he was on a double date with Stradlater. He knows how to seduce girls and use them for sex. Another reason that Stradlater is Stradlater is negative is because he is ungrateful for everything he gets. For example, Stradlater had a date and asked Holden to write his english paper for him, he said it could be on anything he wants, as long as it is descriptive and has lots of details. So holden was thinking about his brother Allie who died and how they liked to play baseball. So Holden wrote an essay on the baseball glove they played with. When Stradlater saw this he said, ““ No wonder you’re flunking the hell out of here,” he said. “You don't know do one damn thing the way you're supposed to . I mean it. Not one damn thing.””(Salinger 47) This is showing how ungrateful Stradlater is.
In the article “Op-Ed: Save Salinger Archives From Salinger” Mr. Rosenbaum says allie, “A poetry lover who covered his baseball mitt with verses, who died of leukemia at age 10.”(2). He had a positive impact on Holden though. He has helped his creative aspect in life. He has helped him write, for example he has wrote about his brother Allie’s baseball glove in an essay for a friend. In “A Reader's Guide to J. D. Salinger “ Robert Milter explains how Allie is “Holden's Deceased's younger brother, Who remain frozen in the threshold of adolescence.”(266). This is A metaphor, showing how this has affected holden. So we know that holden loves kids and anything thing that has youth involved in it. Since Allie died when he was ten years old, maybe that's why Holden likes youth so much. Because Holden’s best years were in his youth with his brother. Allie is stuck in threshold of adolescence but Holden is stuck there with him. And that can be a good thing because it inspires him to keep trying to maintain innocence like a person