In the article Your
Rattle No One Else Can Hear, the author is really trying to stretch across
that everyone has a problem in their life, or some sort of pain that has
affected them in some way, but some people can’t see it. People can’t see your
pain sometimes, or know how you’re feeling, and you’re told to get over it.
Some things are hard to get over though, and the pain you’re feeling doesn’t go
away because it has affected you tremendously. It’s a pain that can’t be fixed,
and people tell you to get over it, but that pain will always be there with
you. This article, and the further meaning behind it could connect to Holden,
and his brother’s death. When Holden was writing a paper for his roommate Stradlater,
he wrote it about a baseball glove, but that glove actually had a much deeper
meaning to Holden. He goes on to explain this instance “My brother Allie had
this left handed fielder’s mitt… The thing that was descriptive about it,
though, was that he had poems written all over the fingers and the pocket
everywhere… He’s dead now. He got leukemia and died when we were up in Maine...
I was only thirteen and they were going to have me psychoanalyzed and all,
because I broke windows in the garage. I don’t blame them…I slept in the garage
the night he died, and I broke all the windows with my fist… 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. My hand still hurts me once in a while,” (Catcher,
pg 43-44). This was Holden’s “thorn in his side” the pain that still affects
him to this day, something that happened a while ago and people think he should’ve
gotten over, but it still hurts him, and affects who he is. That’s what the
author of Your Rattle No One Else Can
Hear, when she said “you just
might have a rattle, as well. Maybe not in your kinda, newish car. Rather, that
thing that is the thorn in your side, that others can’t see or detect that
you’re told to get over.” Holden has that thorn, it’s the death of his brother.
I think our posts are really parallel to each others. I definitely agree that Allie and his death is the "thorn in Holden`s side". I feel bad in a way for Holden because I feel like he has so much to carry but he is so closed off. Do you think Holden and Neil Perry are similar characters?
ReplyDeleteDo you think the "thorn in his side" with cause a bigger problem in the book later on.
ReplyDeleteI think you made a very good connection. Do you think they have similar people in their lives that create these "thorns"?
ReplyDeleteI do think that Holden and Neil are very similar characters. They both don't really share their problems, and it takes a while to get to know them truly. They have issues they don't share, and when that happens they bottle everything up, so hopefully Holden will begin to share his problems and seek help so he doesn't end up not having anyone to go to like Neil did.
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