Catcher in the Rye Cover

This is the cover I drew for the “Catcher in the Rye.” I drew Holden standing and looking outside the window with a baseball glove in his hand. I drew the baseball glove because it had a big significance in the novel. This was the baseball glove from Allie that Holden always kept. Allie was one of the few people Holden loved. In remembrance of Allie, Holden kept it safe. The death of Allie had a great impact on Holden and that was one of the main reasons Holden went into depression. After Allie’s death, he felt lonely and thought that the world was corrupted. The baseball mitt is in his right hand, because it is the hand that Holden hurt while punching a window. His right hand was ineffective because he broke it by punching windows after Allie’s death, and he could never make a tight fist again. In the cover I drew, the Allie’s baseball mitt covers Holden’s right hand, and this symbolizes how Allie looks over him and protects him. Also, I outlined the glove in red because that color was important to Holden. Both Allie and Phoebe had red hair, and those were the only two people he really loved and connected with. IT was also the color of his red hunting hat. In the drawing, Holden is looking outside the window where the rye is. While Holden is holding the glove, he gazes out the window and dreams about wanting to become “a catcher in the rye.” Holden imagined children playing outside the rye. He wanted to catch all the children before they fell off a cliff into a corrupted world. He thought that children were innocent and pure and wanted to protect them from the evilness of the outside world they didn’t experience yet.  This was  also the title of the novel.