In the beginning of the novel “The devil in the white city” by Erik Larson, the author begins with “How easy it was to disappear.” (pg.11) This quote represent how there was “anonymous deaths happening very often.” Most of the deaths were young naive women. The women were ending up dead because they were released from their protection. The young naive women migrated to chicago from farm cities in order to find new jobs and to be on their own. The young women got jobs under “alien roofs,”(Pg.11) the jobs that were offered were typewriters, seamstress, and weavers. Young women traveled by trains and,were able to walk down the unsafe streets of the city. As the young naive women were traveling, the pullman strike was occurring at the same time.