Some people don't realize what's really happening in front of them, no matter how obvious it may seem to others. In the case of HH Holmes, he is able to lie and charm people into trusting him so that he can escape murder. In The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson, the author presents his audience with the thoughts of Holmes and his victims, obscuring the ideas. Light of perfection that Holmes creates with the dark reality of his true intentions in order to allow readers to see how the ignorance of his victims allows his evil ways to hide beneath the good that they fail to ignore. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor. Larson gives his readers a glimpse into Holmes' mind to allow them to compare what he says and what he actually feels during the first known murder featured in. In the novel, Larson tells his audience that Holmes "knew that he possessed great power over Julia... [He] now possessed her as fully as if she were an antebellum slave, and he reveled in her possession » (146). The reader can tell that Holmes believes he dominates Julia, that she has no control over what he will do to her. This is scary for the audience because they now see that Holmes is quite crazy. Not only does Holmes possess these women, but he views them as objects. Larson titles one of his chapters “Acquiring Minnie” (198) to tell the story of how Holmes seduced Minnie so that he could kill her. He uses the same word “acquired” to describe how Holmes “acquired high-quality furniture” (198) for his hotel. This directly compares Minnie to an inanimate piece of furniture, showing how Holmes views these women as objects to be purchased with charm, gifts, and false love. Larson hopes that his audience will have a low opinion of Holmes because of the way he thinks about these women; he hopes that they can easily see Holmes' fake plays and discover his true psychopathic plans. Larson also mentions some very disturbing details about Julia's murder. He tells us how Holmes found it "singularly exciting" (148) when Julia began to fight back, and how "the sensation, as always, was pleasant and produced in him a warm languor, such as he felt after sitting too much in a wheelchair for a long time. in front of a hot stove” (148-149). Larson allows his readers to see how Holmes achieves this soothing sexual release by choking this poor woman who he has been faking and lying to so he can murder her. He hopes to disgust readers with this description and make them see Holmes in a negative light. This way, when they see what these women are thinking, they realize the tricks Holmes is playing and how he is obscuring the truth with his charm, taking advantage of the fact that these women are too ignorant, hypnotized by Holmes, to see the dangerous truth. Holmes' victims are so charmed that they don't realize how dangerous he really is, Larson lets his audience into the minds of some of Holmes' victims, one of them being Georgiana Yoke. The audience hears that “she had never met anyone like him.” He was handsome, eloquent, and clearly well-off” (Larson 307). They are able to see what Georgiana truly believes: Holmes is a wonderful man. Because Larson reveals this point of view to the audience, the audience is able to compare it with Holmes' point of view and see how easily he deceived these women and got away with it. Another girl, Anna, was suspicious of Holmes until she met him and "his warmth, smile, and obvious affection for Minnie quickly put [her] suspicions to rest" (Larson 264). “Holmes wassuch a charming man. And now that Anna knew him, she saw that he was very handsome indeed” (Larson 292). Something about him caused her, like many before her, to let down her guard and not question his actions, no matter how skeptical they appeared to the reader. The audience, however, can realize that when Holmes invites her alone to his hotel, something bad is going to happen. It is especially evident that Holmes is planning to murder Ana when he asks her to enter his safe -loudly and “joyfully, she [does]” (294). She trusts Holmes so much; she is so fascinated by its perfection that the thought of danger never enters her mind. These women, so charmed and so trusting in Holmes, let down their guard and walk toward death, but they don't see it that way. The only reason the audience can see the danger is because Larson is revealing Holmes' point of view to them. Since the audience is privy to Holmes' tricks, these women appear to be responsible for their deaths because they should have seen it coming. It's not entirely their fault, as Holmes charms them into gaining their trust, making them unaware of his true intentions. This is only obvious to the reader because Larson allows his audience to see the minds of both Holmes and his victims, to have both perspectives on situations and to always be aware of this which is actually about to happen while the others remain innocent. the fact, the people around him never suspect him of a dubious affair. He is so narcissistically confident that when he hires Charles Chappell to turn a murdered body into a skeleton, then the man thinks nothing of the corpse on the table which "looked like that of a rabbit that had been skinned while splitting the body" . skin on the face and roll it all over the body” (Larson 151). Larson informs his audience that the body did not bother Chappell, “because [he] knew Holmes was a doctor” (151). The man easily believed that Holmes was simply dissecting the body for research purposes. Holmes, as convincing as he was, was able to let someone into his torture chamber, see a skinless corpse, and still have no suspicion about Holmes. Larson makes sure to include the details about the body so the audience sees how obvious it was to us, knowing Holmes, that he had murdered this person, and Chappell didn't notice anything like his audience. Larson also includes Chappell's reasoning for thinking nothing of the corpse; Chappell knew that Holmes was a doctor, so it was perfectly normal to have a dismantled corpse lying on a table in a hotel basement. The audience realizes that it's not just because Larson gave them a glimpse into Holmes' mind; these spectators are completely oblivious to the murders literally unfolding in front of them. Even for a victim, it is not obvious that he or she is about to be murdered. In Anna's case, after Holmes locks her in the safe, she continues to disbelieve that he is a bad guy. She “guessed that [Holmes], unaware of her whereabouts, had gone elsewhere in the building” (Larson 295). She thought this would “explain why he still hadn’t come despite his beatings” (Larson 295). In this hypnotized state of mind that Holmes has put her in using his charm and devious seduction, she is unable to understand what is really happening. The audience knows what is really about to happen thanks to a glimpse into Holmes' mind. If the audience didn't have a general idea of ​​what was going on in Holmes' mind, they might not have understood that she was about to be killed. Since Larson gave them this opposing view, they are able to say that this.