Despite Allie ‘s decease being wholly out of Holden ‘s power, Holden still puts himself to fault for many unfortunate events which occurred during Allie ‘s short life. Although the events that Holden caused were undistinguished, Holden still believes that he can non let himself to see felicity until he corrects his errors to Allie, which is impossible given that Allie is now merely existent in Holden ‘s imaginativeness. Even though most would bury about their minute errors in life, Holden shows that he is genuinely affected by his past actions by the faultless item in which he remembers and describes them. One of Holden ‘s declinations is exposed when he recalls “ Anyway, Allie heard us speaking about it, and he wanted to travel, and I would n’t allow him. I told him he was a kid. So one time in a piece, now, when I get really down, I keep stating to him, ‘Okay. Go place and acquire your bikeaˆ¦ ‘ ” ( 99 ) . While non allowing Allie drama with him was non a really important event to Holden during Allie ‘s life-time, one time Allie is deceased, Holden elevates it to the point where he compares it to his toughest and most cheerless struggles that he encounters. In this instance, Holden deems non allowing Allie drama with him to worsening the services of a cocotte, whom he has already agreed to pay as being on the same degree of badness as each other. When Holden stops to believe about Acts of the Apostless of a sexual nature, he does see them to be enjoyable, yet can non look to allow himself bask them when a state of affairs arises. Even when Holden has arranged for a cocotte to run into him at his room, he can non accept the pleasance which would unimpeachably result had he followed through. Holden does expose his involuntariness to prosecute in sexual Acts of the Apostless, which necessarily would take to his ain felicity when he says “ Anyway, I kept walking around the room, waiting for this cocotte to demo upaˆ¦I kind of merely wanted to acquire it over with. Finally, somebodyaˆ¦ ” ( 93 ) . Because Holden will non allow himself see joy, he explicitly says in his narrative that he desires a really short brush with the cocotte, therefore all but extinguishing his opportunities to see joy from the state of affairs. By non being capable of sing any positive emotions, Holden is on a direct way towards holding a dim and uninviting hereafter.

In “ Oh, What a Red Sweater ” , the supporter is a immature miss who is characterized as being stuck mediate two stages of her life, and can non settle on which to give herself to. Although the miss ‘s age is ne’er explicitly dictated in this verse form, she is implied to be on the border of being an stripling in the really first statements of the verse form, which read “ Too immature for her organic structure ‘s changesaˆ¦her adolescent old ages practiced every dark. ” The scene for the bulk of the verse form is in a thrift shop where the miss is seeking on provocative vesture, which is unimpeachably considered to be big garments. This small miss shows that she does non yet understand her ain desires when she contradicts herself sing the provocative vesture. The miss is unable to make up one’s mind on whether or non she wants to maturate yet, and demonstrates it when she narrates “ Mama, can I have it delight? /And oh, how I want Mama to state yes, /And oh, how I want Mama to state no. ” In this state of affairs, the small miss is debating with herself whether she is ready to maturate, but can non make up one’s mind so alternatively passes the duty onto her female parent. By rejecting the duty that she must take on, she besides indirectly shows that she can non yet manage the grownup universe and still non merely wants, but besides needs the protection of grownups, like her female parent. However, the immature miss does non yet grok this, which makes it dramatic sarcasm. So while the immature miss is non yet ready to maturate, she continues to hang mediate adolescence and maturity, unsure of what her hereafter will convey.

As an stripling, this vernal miss has still non decided on what type of personality she will have/has, which is coercing her to experiment until she finds the perfect lucifer for herself. In this verse form, the different vesture that the miss is seeking on symbolizes the different types of personalities that she will be forced to take from before being able to maturate into maturity. By holding the verse form ‘s scene in a thrift store, Michael Alan Parker was able to insinuate that the miss was ‘trying on ‘ other people ‘s personalities. In the verse form, the miss tries on really provocative vesture, which may typify the vesture of a adult female who has matured to the full into maturity. This small miss shows that she clearly does non suit into that specific personality because she finally decides to travel back to her old manner, or personality, when she thinks “ It is n’t you, I tell the mirror, /And put back the porkpie chapeau ” to herself.