The past

When Holden talks of past experiences that he has had his actions are affected by the remembrance of these memories. In example when Holden had told me how after he had written his roommate Stradlater's composition for him about his dead brother Allie's baseball glove, and after the argument between Stradlater and Holden. Holden punches Stradlater in his face, now normally you would just think of this as a barbarous attack against another person from normal aggression dealing with annoyance and anger. But later Holden sates hes yellow and how Maurice had basically beaten Holden and taken his money. Between Holden punching Stradlater because of Stradlater saying how Holden is a screw up and how the composition of Allie's baseball glove was horrible. I believe that Holden had only been able to punch stradlater in the face because of how he never got to relieve himself of Allie's death. It was said how he wasn't able to attend Alie's funeral, making in my opinion anything dealing with Allie a touchy subject.