Symbolism


 * Object || Textual Description: || What the object symbolizes ||
 * Red Hunting Hat || "But it was freezing cold and I took my red hunting hat out of my pocket and put it on, I didn't give a damn how I looked. || It comforts him, but he only wears it when he is alone. ||
 * Allie's Mit || " He had poems written all over the fingers and the pocket and everywhere" || It symbolizes childhood innocence, and not letting go of the past. ||
 * Ducks and the pond that is "partly frozen and partly not frozen" || " You know those ducks in that lagoon near Central Park south?....Do you happen to know where they do, the ducks, when it gets all frozen over. || The change from childhood to adulthood. ||
 * The "catcher in the rye" || "Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all", -"I mean if they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them." || He wants to save children from growing up. ||
 * Museum of Natural History || "... You had to go down this very long and narrow sort of hall with stones on the side that they'd taken right out of this Pharaoh's tomb and all" || The museum doesn't change but the people do. ||
 * Carousel || " Anyway, we kept getting closer and closer to the carousel and you could hear the nutty music it always plays" || His childhood with D.B, Allie, and Phoebe. ||