"What myths, or ideas about Chicago can be seen in the excerpts from The Titan? What evidence supports this idea? " PLEASE HELPP!!

“Here was life; he saw it at a flash. Here was a seething city in the making. There was something dynamic in the very air which appealed to his fancy. How different, for some reason, from Philadelphia! That was a stirring city, too. He had thought it wonderful at one time, quite a world; but this thing, while obviously infinitely worse, was better. It was more youthful, more hopeful. [. . .] Why, it fairly sang! The world was young here. Life was doing something new.” “From New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine had come a strange company, earnest, patient, determined, unschooled in even the primer of refinement, hungry for something the significance of which, when they had it, they could not even guess, anxious to be called great, determined so to be without ever knowing how.”3. “A city with but a handful of the native-born; a city packed to the doors with all the riffraff of a thousand towns.”