At first glance, Evelyn Nesbit’s relationship with the little girl seems sweet, almost motherly, but something about Doctorow's descriptions left me feeling uneasy. Evelyn sees a beautiful little girl, and then becomes so enamored with her that she has to go visit her every single day. Doctorow calls the little girl Evelyn’s “new love interest”, says she is “aroused” when dreaming about the girl, and makes other very creepy remarks of that nature (45-46). Not to mention the bathing scene, which could have definitely been excluded or edited, which ends with a kiss on the lips. I realize that some people kiss their parents on the lips, so this could be read as a motherly gesture, but adding that action to everything else Evelyn has thought and done, it feels a bit creepy. Yet Doctorow may have a point in writing about Evelyn’s infatuation. In the scene after Goldman’s speech, she talks to Evelyn about society sexualizing women, and how Eveyln profits off of that. Goldman says “you...