Leopold And Loeb Sparknotes

You’re driving down West Hubbard Street and the streets are packed full of people like an over stuffed box. The closer you get to the end of the road, you see two young men climbing out a police car. Like a wave you are instantly hit by the realization. That the two young men are murders Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, and all these people are waiting like hungry lion for the conviction of the two boys. So you pull off on to a shady side street and hurry out of the car into the hot summer heat. To join the pack of lions and await for news about the trial. Two extraordinary young men who were blinded by love and decided to commit the “perfect crime” and tried to get away with it. In this time period morals may have been loose but not so
The two boys relationship was very puzzling to outside viewers, since the boys had little to nothing in common (Braatz). Loeb was good looking, well liked, and very smart even though he chose not to show it. On the other hand, Leopold was not very good looking, shy, awkward, and tended to over achieve in his studies (Adcock). Although Leopold and Loeb did come from similar backgrounds of wealthy families, they were both pushed to do extremely well in school at a young age, and they both entered college at a very young age (Rosenberg). This caused them to feel insecure about certain things and were very isolated from others. These feelings played a role in establishing their relationship. Also, since Leopold wasn’t very good at making friends, he was determined to keep his friendship with Loeb even if he was poison in his blood
In their relationship Loeb never wanted to commit his criminalist acts alone (Braatz). He always wanted and audience, since Leopold had fallen in love with Loeb since the first time they had met (page#). It was very easy for Loeb to convince him of playing out his fantasies of being the master criminal (“Leopold”). Shortly after they had became friends, Loeb thought of a plan to cheat at cards and Leopold all to quickly fell in love with the idea, so that he wouldn’t lose Loeb’s love and friendship; Thus giving them both this kind of false love and safety with each