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Ward Stradlater
Ackley is a student who lives in the adjoining room to Holden and Stradlater’s room at Pencey Prep. A peculiar and rather annoying young man, Ackley has terrible personal hygiene, bad skin, and unclean teeth. For this reasons, not many people like him, and Ackley’s behavior doesn’t help this situation, since he often lingers and acts like he dislikes people even though it’s obvious he wants them to pay attention to him. This is what he does to Holden on Holden’s last night at Pencey Prep. When Holden and Stradlater get into a fight, Holden retreats into Ackley’s room just because he wants some company, but he finds himself too annoyed by Ackley’s presence to remain in the room, so he decides to leave Pencey Prep and travel on his own to New York City.
Robert Ackley Quotes in The Catcher in the Rye
The The Catcher in the Rye quotes below are all either spoken by Robert Ackley or refer to Robert Ackley. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 3
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[Ackley] took another look at my hat […]. "Up home we wear a hat like that to shoot deer in, for Chrissake," he said. "That’s a deer shooting hat."
"Like hell it is." I took it off and looked at it. I sort of closed one eye, like I was taking aim at it. "This is a people shooting hat," I said. "I shoot people in this hat."
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Robert Ackley Quotes in The Catcher in the Rye
The The Catcher in the Rye quotes below are all either spoken by Robert Ackley or refer to Robert Ackley. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 3
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[Ackley] took another look at my hat […]. "Up home we wear a hat like that to shoot deer in, for Chrissake," he said. "That’s a deer shooting hat."
"Like hell it is." I took it off and looked at it. I sort of closed one eye, like I was taking aim at it. "This is a people shooting hat," I said. "I shoot people in this hat."
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