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Allie is Holden’s deceased younger brother. Allie died of leukemia when Holden was 13, and the memory of this loss still haunts Holden, who remembers his brother as intelligent, calm, and friendly—in short, the perfect child. On the night Allie died, Holden slept in the garage and punched out all the windows with his bare hand, causing him to miss the funeral because he needed to go to the hospital. In the aftermath of this event, his parents wanted to have Holden psychoanalyzed, but apparently never followed through with this idea. Having never resolved his feelings about Allie, then, Holden thinks about him quite frequently and even calls upon him as a protector of sorts when he feels particularly depressed.
Allie Caulfield Quotes in The Catcher in the Rye
The The Catcher in the Rye quotes below are all either spoken by Allie Caulfield or refer to Allie Caulfield. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 5
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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…It was a very stupid thing to do, I’ll admit, but I hardly didn’t even know I was doing it, and you didn’t know Allie.
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Allie Caulfield Quotes in The Catcher in the Rye
The The Catcher in the Rye quotes below are all either spoken by Allie Caulfield or refer to Allie Caulfield. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 5
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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…It was a very stupid thing to do, I’ll admit, but I hardly didn’t even know I was doing it, and you didn’t know Allie.
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