Allie's left-handed baseball glove is a symbol of his unique personality as well as Holden's love for his brother. The unique part of the glove is that Allie wrote poems all over it, in green ink. He did that so he would have something to read when he was in the baseball field and the game was boring. Holden keeps the glove with him and has it at Pencey. It is, of course, misguided to think that the boorish Stradlater, Holden's roommate, could understand or appreciate the essay that Holden writes about the glove. Stradlater wants something descriptive to hand in to his English teacher and is too lazy and dull to do the work himself. He asks Holden to write it. 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.
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