Doctorow in my Eyes

As I read more and more of what Doctorow wrote in his novels that our class has read this semester, I have found that most of what Docotorow talks about is horrible in one way or another. i belive that Doctorow had to have a troubled life in one way or another gowing up. h etalks about domestic abuse in the case of Daniel. he goes inot very sexual context when he tlkaing about Billy coming on to his mother. he also talks a lot about gang affiliation and violence. It seemed as i read more and more it alway had something to do with violence. i understand that Doctorow is a very creative man, but is all of his ideas and thoughts completly fiction to him? Another example of the way Doctoorow comes off as kind of a sick man to me is when he shows how much affection, and sexual desire he has for his mother figure Drew. She has been through a lot with Billy, escorting almost where ever he went, church, family dinners, and around town. What i dont understand is how Billy can sit at church or be around Schultz knowing what he is doing, and thinkning about his mother. Another part of Doctorows novels that blew me away is how he comes up with such crual and malicous acts of violence. for example in The Book Of Daniel, he describes daniel buring his wife with a cigarette lighter. We talked about it in class and some people agree with me that it was done on purpose, and some think it was an accident. from the way that Doctoorow wrote it, it didint seem like any kind of accident. It just seems to me that many of Doctorows characters have had a rough time growing up, with no one to support them, and end up hurting someone else. The final thing I have noticed most about doctorows is the sense of death in the air throughout all his books. Im not going to get into the people that have died throughout all the books we read this semster, but it seems like about half of the characters have. Why is this, is the question I ask myself everytime I think about Doctorows writings.