Jane Gallagher Holden met Jane during vacation. If Stradlater wasn’t, Ackley would lie down on your bed and scratch opens his pimples and wipe the pus all over your pillow. He hated Stradlater and wouldn’t come in if he was there. Before he’d come in he’d check if Stradlater was in the room as well. It’s supposed to piss you off and it does. He’s a real jerk he’d come into your room as if that was by mistake and he’d pick something up and put it down somewhere else. He’s got lousy teeth and pimples over his face. He’s messy, he looks messy and always leaves everything messed up. Nobody ever calls him by his first name Bob or even Ack, Holden thinks that even his wife will call him Ackley. ” Robert Ackley Everybody calls him Ackley. He also is a guy who your parents would notice in a Year Book. ” Holden says, “Stradlater’s good at snowing his dates and getting them to have sex with him even if they don’t want to. He thought he was the handsomest guy in the Western Hemisphere. “The reason why he fixed himself up to look good was because he was madly in love with himself. Stradlater makes a pretty big deal out of dressing up and that kind of stuff. But Stradlater is bigger and stronger, while Holden is very tall and thin. He’s a senior, 18 years old, and as tall as Holden. Minor Characters Ward Stradlater Stradlater is Holden’s roommate at Pencey is real good whistler, although his whistle is never in tune it has a great range. Now he can’t make fist with his right hand because of that. When Allie died, Holden spent all day in the garage and he broke all the windows. Holden really liked his younger brother Allie, who died. ’ He hates ‘phonies’, people who have an attitude. I thought how Phoebe and all the other little kids would see it, and how they’d wonder what it meant, and then finally some dirty kid would tell them-all cockeyed, naturally-what it meant, and how they’d all think about it and maybe even worry about it for a couple of days. Somebody’d written ‘F*** you on the wall. ’ He exaggerates big time and he swears a lot.Įspecially when he talks to his roommates. It isn’t much, but you get quite a lot of vitamins in the malted milk. ‘When I’m somewhere I generally just eat a Swiss cheese and a malted milk. If he says something he thinks is dumb or not tough enough he jokes about it. He really is afraid people will think he’s a softy or some sort of rich sissy. ” He adds “… if you want to know the truth” very often after he has added something to what he’d said before. I even had sort of a stomach-ache, if you want to know the truth. He even goes on proving himself to the reader.