Complex sentence: Oughton's sense of herself made it more difficult to get along with her father; she saw her parents' lives in Dwight, Illinois as complacent and secure, and lives in the impoverished sections of Chicago and Detroit as chaotic.
Split into simpler sentences: Oughton's sense of herself made it more difficult to get along with her father. Oughton saw lives in the impoverished sections of Chicago and Detroit as chaotic.