Chapter 14

In this chapter of The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, Holden gets a visit from Maurice and Sunny who try to get the five dollars that Holden did not pay even when Maurice told Holden that he only had to pay five dollars and not ten. When Sunny takes five dollars out of Holden's wallet, he starts crying. "I'd give anything if hadn't but I had." (pg. 134) After Maurice beats him up, Holden has a childlike revenge fantasy of having a bullet in his guts and hunting down Maurice and shooting him with a machine gun. Holden demonstrates his immaturity in this chapter twice. First, by crying over five dollars and then, by taking out his anger at Maurice by just imagining that he was a war hero who was going to kill him.