The Good And Evil Of A City Erick Larson s The Devil

The Good and Evil of a City: Erick Larson’s The Devil in the White City Larson’s The Devil in the White City was written during the time of 1890’s era of the Chicago World Fair and culture in the American’s utopian ideals. Larson will introduce the main character Daniel Burnham and his connection with the 1893 Chicago World Fair and the foreshadowing of many death within the chapters. Throughout the book, Larson will be discussing that evil exists in the American city during the time of the fair. He also explains about an orderly pattern throughout the book, the comparison of the themes of good and evil and the city as a cover-up of many murdering during Daniel Burnham lives, and another character live, a crazy serial killer name H.H.†¦show more content†¦The Chicago city itself provided the vanishing of people, a cover-up after a murder. Holmes has everything that a typical American figure should be. A â€Å"handsome† and â€Å"unmarriedà ¢â‚¬  young doctor, now living in Chicago (46). It was to create a strong American Ideal, showing wealth and appearance. So, it was a way for him to blend into the population of Chicago while at the same time murdering people without their knowledge because he looks like an American Ideal. It was the control of space and anxiety from the people. His murdering of Mrs. Holton was a success because of his cover up that she is visiting California, and buying her drug store. (45 – 47). â€Å"Holmes smiled and explained that she had decided to visit a relative in California, something she had wanted could not have done with her husband on his deathbed†¦. sometime modified the story by saying she had decided to settle their permanently† (47). Throughout the book, Larson spread evil in Holmes’s character. It was considered where evil genuinely lurk. Larson let his reader explore Holmes and that he is a serial killer who murders without hesitation to do with the in clusion of tampering into people’s lives to get what he wants. Larson’s sets H.H. Holmes as the example of evil and David Burnham as the good. According to chapter 5, Larson explained that Myrta Z Belknap, a â€Å"beautiful, lush figure, blond woman†