The Catcher in the Rye 2

Robert Ackley. Nobody ever calls him Robert, just Ackley. It even says in the book that "if he gets married, his own wife'll probably call him Ackley". Ackley is a very vivid character in the Catcher in the Rye. He is described as having bad hygiene because he was never seen brushing his teeth so they always looked "mossy and awful". His dorm room always smelled funny and he had pimples all over his face. "He had a terrible personality" too.

When you first read about him he barges into Holdens room uninvited and starts making small talk as an excuse for attention and walks around as Holden is trying to read a book. Holden tries to ignore that he is there for as long as he can until he realizes that he has been reading the same sentence over and over. Ackley was just walking around looking through all of Holdens stuff. But not secretly. It says that Ackley picks up a picture of Holden and a girl and he always puts it down in the wrong place on purpose. Ackley seems to want attention a lot. We all have a little Ackley in us. Ackley isn't even all bad. You can hang out with him every once in a while as long as there is someone else around. People like Ackley need to be Loved. Everyone has a liar inside of them as everyone has good intentions in them.