Chapter 3-5

In chapter 3 we see Holden talk about how he is a good liar because he lied about going to the gym to his teacher. He goes back to his dorm room where his neighbor Ackley is also, they are the only people that aren't at the football game. Ackley is described as the annoying kid who won't leave you alone, he has acne and pops his pimples all over Holden's room and all that sort of stuff, and then his roomate Stradlater comes home from the football game and gets ready for his date, Stradlater is described as your typical jock type. He's stronger that Holden and acts like a big shot, the typical jock like attitude, and in chapter 4 Holden goes into the shower and discusses with Stradlater about his date. His date is a girl that Holden knows and has feelings for. He says several times that he should go say hi to her but ends up not, Stradlater asks Holden to do his homework for him while he goes on this date, Holden doesn't fully answer him. Holden in chapter 5 goes out to the movies with his friend from his fencing team, Mal Brossard, he also invited Ackley, they never end up going to the movies, they ended up grabbing some burgers and playing pinball and ended up going back to the dorms, Ackley annoys Holden for a while longer until Holden finnally says that he has to do Stradlaters homework and kicks him out, instead of writing about some dumb room or house, the thing he's supposed to write about. He writes about his younger brothers baseball mitt. His brother wrote poems in this mitt so when he was on the field and nobody was batting he would have something to do, he describes his brother in such detail, only to later reveal that his brother had died in his past.