Being the narrator of the story, Holden's conscience is revealed through his thoughts and the situations that he experiences throughout the novel. He ha a very strange conscience because he doesn't necessarily feel bad about failing out of school multiple times, or judgin people, or cursing all the time, but he is very conflicted when I comes to his thoughts about sexuality, and his actions with girls. He obviously has a strange conscience if he was willing to pay to have a whore come to his room, but then conflicted enough to pay her to simply sit and talk with him. He says, "Sex is something I really don't understand too hot. You never know where the hell you are. I keep making these sex rules for myself, and then I break them right away." Holden's style seems to be quite impulsive. He makes decisions and takes actions and then analyzes those thoughts an actions later. Possibly, that might just be the way this book seems because Holden is writings retrospectively about himself. Though sex and girls aren't the only things that Holden had as struggle with, he thinks about them quite a lot. I think this is because he also thinks of Jane Gallagher often, and he is attracted to her, so the two are obviously connected.
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