he had with Sally Hayes. He reports telling her that "Jesus would've puked" if he could have seen the Radio City Christmas pageant. Sally calls him a "sacrilegious atheist." To this Holden assents: "I probably am." (137/178) However, he goes on to declare that "The thing Jesus really would've liked would be the guy that plays the kettle drums in the orchestra." (138/ 178) He and Allie had loved that drummer, who only gets to bang the drums a couple of times during a whole piece - but who never looked bored and was always sweetly attentive. The theology here is approximately that of the Sermon on the Mount: 183 Blessed are the meek, etc., and as such fully compatible with Dostoevsky's emphasis on the Gospels. There remains to discuss similarities in style between Dostoevsky and Salinger. We have already mentioned each writer's use of certain motifs to emphasize, in symbolic fashion, various religious themes. These include the symbol of the stone in Brothers , which finally seems to stand for the modern secular church. In Catcher there are two motifs in particular that dominate the text. One is Holden's red hunting hat. The hat is mentioned at least twenty times. Holden usually wears it backwards. The other motif is Allie's fielder's mitt; though mentioned only a few times, it clearly has special significance (one recalls Holden's composition about it that he wrote for Stradlatter). The key to the meaning of these symbols is that in the game of baseball