The juxtaposition between Rich and Perry and Bewey and Nye's investigative journey is that they were on the opposite end of the spectrum, working together to accomplish an ultimate goal. On the two crimminals' side, Rich and Perry work together to avoid the law after they had robbed and annihilated the Clutter family. While on the protagonists' side, Nye and Bewey attempt to find, apprehend, and hand out sentences to the murders. They each worked together with their partner to do opposite thing and accomplishs goals on each side of the spectrum. Those two sets of people were in constrast throughout the entirety of the book.
