He doesn’t act like one. Remember that in Kenobi’s day the Jedi weren’t hermits. They were extremely active as warrior monk diplomat cops, flitting from trouble spot to trouble spot trying to resolve things. Think back to Episode II in the elevator, when Obi-Wan and Anakin are having a good laugh about all the tight spots they’ve been in. And this is in a time of peace! In the Legends (i.e., pre-Disney) canon, they were even a part of the Republic’s official judicial department.
When we meet him in Episode IV, Kenobi hasn’t acted like a Jedi (as he understands the term) in a long, long time. Remember, Kenobi says that a Jedi is a guardian of peace and justice (he’s arguably wrong about that, but that’s how he thinks of a Jedi knight). Just what peace and justice has he been guarding, there in his hovel on Tatooine, while for the past twenty years the Empire has grown ever stronger?
He doesn’t particularly dress like one either. I mean, yes, he still wears the same clothes that he wore as a young man. But remember that in Star Wars, people from many different cultures wear loose robes with cowls - so much so that we see characters put on loose robes with cowls when they don’t want to be noticed, and nobody bats an eye. It’s apparently that common. So although Kenobi wore the Jedi-specific version of light sandy clothes with a loose cowled robe, I don’t think people in context would have considered that particularly distinctive.
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