Holmes Vs Burnham Analysis
There are many different interpretations of what success is and how one can attain it. Some people believe that success is when people have finally achieved something they have desired and worked for. The way in which people can achieve their goals can be drastically different. H.H Holmes reaches success by using deception, preying on the vulnerability of others and employing his charming personality to coax an individual into giving him what he desires. Daniel Burnham, on the other hand, works hard to place himself into positions of power that allow him to control the way he achieves success, such as working hard to establish a firm with his right hand man, Root. While Holmes uses deception and his charming personality to establish himself
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Holmes relied on his deceptive techniques, the vulnerability of others and his charming personality to coax others into giving him what he needed in order to become a successful business owner of a pharmacy. In order to make money to fuel his elaborate lifestyle he had dreamed about, he “devised an elaborate life insurance fraud” to fake the death of four people in order to collect their life insurance policy (Larson 42). Holmes “sensed vulnerability, sensed it that way another man might capture the trace of a woman’s perfume.”(Larson 36) and preyed on any victim that would give him the slightest advantage. Mrs. Holton, a new widow with a pharmacy on her hands, was the perfect prey for Holmes. He coerced her into letting him buy the pharmacy and thanked her with tears in his eyes that he would now be “for the first time . . . established in a business that was satisfactory” (Larson …show more content…
Burnham, on the other hand, knew that working well with other people and having an approachable personality would play a key role in securing his empire as a successful business owner. Though Burnham and Holmes had completely different reasons for why they wanted to become successful, they both were respected businessmen who conducted their businesses not all that different from one
Holmes relied on his deceptive techniques, the vulnerability of others and his charming personality to coax others into giving him what he needed in order to become a successful business owner of a pharmacy. In order to make money to fuel his elaborate lifestyle he had dreamed about, he “devised an elaborate life insurance fraud” to fake the death of four people in order to collect their life insurance policy (Larson 42). Holmes “sensed vulnerability, sensed it that way another man might capture the trace of a woman’s perfume.”(Larson 36) and preyed on any victim that would give him the slightest advantage. Mrs. Holton, a new widow with a pharmacy on her hands, was the perfect prey for Holmes. He coerced her into letting him buy the pharmacy and thanked her with tears in his eyes that he would now be “for the first time . . . established in a business that was satisfactory” (Larson …show more content…
Burnham, on the other hand, knew that working well with other people and having an approachable personality would play a key role in securing his empire as a successful business owner. Though Burnham and Holmes had completely different reasons for why they wanted to become successful, they both were respected businessmen who conducted their businesses not all that different from one