As I read Ragtime I noticed that sometimes Doctorow would put a twist on some of his characters that some people may not pick up on unless you are a very careful reader. After doign some research about certain characters such as the characters Stanford White, Harry K thaw, and Evelyn nesbit. Even in real life these people all exist. Doctorow puts them in a fictional, very untrue setting though, and makes them out to be people that they they arent in real life. the seting and the surroundings that Doctorow makes up for thme in new York is not entirley true, and just about everyhting that happend to them is untrue. The question now is, is it ok to take actual peoples names, throw them in a fictional story and misconstrue their lives in ways that it never should have. Because when you think about it if you ever heard the name Harry K. Thaw or Evelyn nesbit after reading this book, and knowing nothing about their true life stories you might get the wrong idea about who they are. Another starnge thing to the whole character usage to me is, do you think that Doctorow expects everyone who reads the book that
some characters he uses are real?
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