"You're a dirty moron."

In chapters 13 & 14, Holden goes back to the hotel to finally get some sleep. As he enters the lobby, he is accosted by the elevator guy asking if he is "Innarested in a little tail t'night?".

At first I thought for a moment the guy was trying to hook up with Holden, but then I realised he was talking about getting Holden a prostitute for the night. "$5 for a throw, $15 till noon."

Holden goes back to his room and then a few minutes later Sunny, the prostitute, comes a'knockin' at his door. They don't do anything, which really didn't surprise me. Throughout the book, sex seems to be a big theme. They are always talking about it, but they never really seem to followthrough with it. I guess if they did, the book would probably get really graphic.

Holden's deal with Maurice was $5 for a throw. Sunny wants $10 but Holden refuses and only pays her $5. Money is also a big theme throughout the last few chapters aswell. He is always talking about how much he has, how much things cost, and how much he is going to have after he does something. I don't know what he was trying to get at by talking about the money. It's all he has while he is taking his minication throughout New York.

So anyways, in the morning in chapter 14, Maurice and Sunny go back to Holden's room. They get into an argument over how much money Holden owes them and Holden ends up with a fist in his gut and $5 shorter.

As a character, I didn't think that Holden would try to piss off somebody that much larger than himself. Though, he does do it with Stradlater so I'm not too surprised. He seems to like to pick fights with people who can, and will, kick his ass.

I liked this scene more than the other scenes because it shows Holden finally being confronted by a phony. He is always talking about how he hates fake people, and that he would do bad things to them or something like that, but nothing ever happens until he is confronted by Maurice and then gets his ass handed to him.