The rattle in the car is like the baseball mitt because the car is just a regular car and the baseball mitt is just a regular mitt, but something happened to with the car and with the mitt that made it special to the narrator in some way whether it’s good or bad. The author of your rattle no one else can hear? Uses the simple idea of a rattle in the car to represent a mental problem associated with the car, this allows the author to just talk about a car rattle on the outside but if you read in between the lines you can see there is something deeper going on. The rattle represents a problem or memory the author has that is constantly bugging her and is intensified when she gets in the car.

 I definitely think the second half could appeal to Holden. There is a lot of bad things that have happened to Holden in the past and those are like his rattle they constantly hears them and they bother him. When the author says “I hear it, I see it, I believe it’s there I hope this moment of understanding and acknowledgement gives you some comfort. For just a moment, you’re not that crazy person.” I think this would really help out Holden because I believe he sees himself as sort of an outsider and when someone else acknowledges what he is mentally going through I think this would really help him. I think Holden makes himself to be an outsider from quotes like this one “Mother darling why won’t you give me tour hand” I was only horsing around naturally the stuff gives me a bang sometimes.” This quote shows how Holden does things that he knows is not socially acceptable but will do anyway to relief stress or fill an awkward situation.