In The Shawshank Redemption, Red helps pass the time by acquiring goods for his fellow inmates. He initially takes a liking to Andy Dufresne Tim Robbins , a convicted killer with a reputation amongst inmates for being slightly pretentious.
Red honors the former banker's request for a rock hammer but also schools him about the unofficial codes of conduct within Shawshank State Penitentiary.
During their first conversation in The Shawshank Redemption , Andy claims his innocence and refuses to admit that he killed his wife and her lover. In response, Red laughs and snarkily states that every other inmate is innocent, too. The two men become good friends over the years and while they rarely speak about their past at one point, though, Red does admit to Andy that he's the only guilty man in Shawshank.
King's novella reveals the truth about Red's past. The book character grew up without a father and then married a woman who came from a rich family. Knowing that his wife had a sizable life insurance policy in place, Red planned her murder by cutting the brakes on her vehicle.
In a dark twist, Red's wife had picked up her neighbor who brought along an infant. Based on the Stephen King novel named Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption , Frank Darabont's film adaptation chronicles a journey towards hope through perseverance, as undergone by the protagonist, Andy Dufrense Tim Robbins. Deemed culturally and historically significant, The Shawshank Redemption has emerged as an artistic piece that evokes hope amid the most extreme odds. On reaching Zihuatanejo, the two friends meet and embrace happily, as they are finally free of the demons that plagued them during their time at Shawshank.
However, a popular theory for Frank Darabont's Shawkshank Redemption pervades audience consciousness, in which, it is believed that Red dies in the end, as he is unable to reconcile with a life outside of Shawshank, much like Brooks Hatlen James Whitmore. Moreover, the reunion between Andy and Red has been shot in a way that feels almost surreal, lending significantly to the duality of the scene in terms of interpretation.
However, as Castle Rock insisted on a reunion, Darabont ended Shawshank on a note of hope, with the two protagonists finding solace within a space that offered absolution. First, you hate them, then you get used to them. Enough time passes, so you depend on them. Zihuatanejo has been aesthetically presented as a sort of safe haven, removed from the toils of the world-at-large, replete with the peaceful and cathartic lull of the Pacific Ocean, that seems to wash away a sense of the past.
This imagery is directly analogous to that of heaven or paradise, tying in with the theme of death, or rather, life after death, at least in the case of Red. It is also important to note that the possibility of escaping to Zihuatanejo is only mentioned after Red admits that he can possibly never atone for his sins, which is in keeping with the religious notion that acceptance of guilt precedes forgiveness or absolution.
Within this context, the presence of the ocean can be likened to the River Styx in Greek mythology, which washes away memories of the life once lived in preparation for the afterlife. As bleak as it sounds, it is entirely plausible that Red, feeling imprisoned in the real world, chose the release of death over the reality of living in constant paranoia and fear.
Hell, we could have been tarring the roof of one of our own houses. We were the lords of all creation. As for Andy - he spent that break hunkered in the shade, a strange little smile on his face, watching us drink his beer. Andy Dufresne : I have no enemies here. Red : Yeah? Wait a while. Word gets around. The Sisters have taken quite a likin' to you. Especially Bogs. Andy Dufresne : I don't suppose it would help if I told them that I'm not homosexual.
Red : Neither are they. You have to be human first. They don't qualify. Andy Dufresne : Red. If you ever get out of here, do me a favor. Red : Sure, Andy. Andy Dufresne : There's a big hayfield up near Buxton. You know where Buxton is? Red : Well, there's Andy Dufresne : One in particular. It's got a long rock wall with a big oak tree at the north end. It's like something out of a Robert Frost poem. It's where I asked my wife to marry me. We went there for a picnic and made love under that oak and I asked and she said yes.
Promise me, Red. If you ever get out At the base of that wall, you'll find a rock that has no earthly business in a Maine hayfield. Piece of black, volcanic glass. There's something buried under it I want you to have. Red : What, Andy?
What's buried under there? Andy Dufresne : [turns to walk away] You'll have to pry it up Red : [narrating] Not long after the warden deprived us of his company, I got a postcard in the mail. It was blank, but the postmark said Fort Hancock, Texas. Fort Hancock That's where Andy crossed. When I picture him heading south in his own car with the top down, it always makes me laugh. Andy Dufresne Andy Dufresne : You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific?
Red : No. Andy Dufresne : They say it has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory. Red : [narrating] There's a harsh truth to face. No way I'm gonna make it on the outside. All I do anymore is think of ways to break my parole, so maybe they'd send me back. Terrible thing, to live in fear. Brooks Hatlen knew it. Knew it all too well. All I want is to be back where things make sense. Where I won't have to be afraid all the time. Only one thing stops me.
A promise I made to Andy. Warden Samuel Norton : [after Andy escapes] Well? Red : Well what? Warden Samuel Norton : I see you two all the time, you're thick as thieves, you are.
Red : Honest, Warden, not a word. Warden Samuel Norton : [frustrated] Lord, it's a miracle! Man up and vanished like a fart in the wind! Nothing left but some damn rocks on the windowsill.
And that cupcake on the wall! Let's ask her, maybe she knows. Warden Samuel Norton : [to poster] What say you there, fuzzy-britches? Feel like talking? Aw, guess not. Why should she be any different?
Warden Samuel Norton : This is a conspiracy, that's what it is. Warden Samuel Norton : One Norton puts his arm through the torn poster and rips it away from the wall, revealing Andy's escape tunnel].
Red : [narrating, referring to Andy] I could see why some of the boys took him for snobby. He had a quiet way about him, a walk and a talk that just wasn't normal around here. He strolled, like a man in a park without a care or a worry in the world, like he had on an invisible coat that would shield him from this place. Yeah, I think it would be fair to say I liked Andy from the start. Red : You're gonna fit right in. Everyone in here is innocent, you know that? Heywood, what you in here for? Heywood : Didn't do it.
Lawyer fucked me. Captain Hadley : Dufresne! Captain Hadley : That's him. That's the one. Guard Dekins : I'm Dekins. I was thinking about setting up some kind of trust fund for my kids' educations. Andy Dufresne : Oh, I see. Well, why don't we have a seat and talk it over. Brooks, do you have a piece of paper and a pencil? So, Mr.
Brooks : [at lunchtime to the other prisoners] And then Andy says, "Mr. Dekins, do you want your sons to go to Harvard Floyd : He didn't say that! Brooks : God is my witness! Dekins just looked at him a second and then he laughed himself silly and afterwards he actually shook Andy's hand. Heywood : My ass. Brooks : Shook his hand! Red : Making a few friends, huh Andy? Andy Dufresne : I wouldn't say friends. I'm a convicted murderer who provides sound financial planning - it's a wonderful pet to have.
Red : Get busy living or get busy dying. That's goddamn right! Red : [narrating] Two things never happened again after that. The Sisters never laid a finger on Andy again They transferred him to a minimum security hospital upstate. To my knowledge, he lived out the rest of his days drinking his food through a straw. Red : [narrating] I must admit I didn't think much of Andy first time I laid eyes on him; looked like a stiff breeze would blow him over.
That was my first impression of the man. Andy Dufresne : Can you get her? Red : Take a few weeks. Andy Dufresne : Weeks? Red : Well yeah, Andy. I don't have her stuffed down the front of my pants right now, I'm sorry to say, but I'll get her. Andy Dufresne : I just don't understand what happened in there. Heywood : Old man's crazy as a rat in a tin shithouse, is what. Red : Oh Heywood, that's enough out of you! Ernie : I heard he had you shittin' in your pants!
Heywood : Fuck you! Red : Would you knock it off? Brooks ain't no bug. He's just Heywood : Institutionalized, my ass. Red : The man's been in here fifty years, Heywood. Fifty years! This is all he knows. In here, he's an important man. He's an educated man. Outside, he's nothin'! Just a used up con with arthritis in both hands. Young punk. Rock and Roll. Cocky as hell. Tommy Williams : Hey, c'mon, old boys!
You're movin' like molasses! Makin' me look bad! Red : [narrating] We liked him immediately. Andy Dufresne : I understand you're a man who knows how to get things. Red : I'm known to locate certain things from time to time. Red : [Narrating] There must be a con like me in every prison in America. I'm the guy who can get if for you; cigarettes, a bag of reefer, if that's your thing, a bottle of brandy to celebrate your kid's high school graduation, damn near anything within reason.
Yes sir, I'm a regular Sears and Roebuck. Red : [narrating] His first night in the joint, Andy Dufresne cost me two packs of cigarettes. He never made a sound. Red : Ever bother you? Andy Dufresne : I don't run the scams Red, I just process the profits.
Fine line, maybe, but I also built that library and used it to help a dozen guys get their high school diploma. Why do you think the warden lets me do all that?
Red : To keep you happy and doing the laundry. Money instead of sheets. Red : [narrating] You could argue he'd done it to curry favor with the guards. Or, maybe make a few friends among us cons.
Me, I think he did it just to feel normal again, if only for a short while. Heywood : Hey, what about me? Crazy old fool goddamn near cut my throat! Red : Aw Heywood, you've had worse from shaving! Red : [referring to Andy] The man likes to play chess; let's get him some rocks. Andy Dufresne : Not me. I didn't shoot my wife, and I didn't shoot her lover. Whatever mistakes I made, I've paid for them and then some. That hotel, that boat I don't think that's too much to ask. Red : You shouldn't be doing this to yourself.
This is just shitty pipe dreams. Mexico is way down there and you're in here Red : That tall drink of water with the silver spoon up his ass. Red : This is the part I really like, when she does that shit with her hair. Red : [narrating] The following April Andy did tax returns for half the guards at Shawshank. Year after that he did them all including the warden's. Year after that they rescheduled the start of the intra-mural season to coincide with tax season.
The guards on the opposing teams all remembered to bring their W2s. Andy Dufresne : So Moresby prison issued you your gun, but you actually had to pay for it. Moresby Batter : Damn right. The holster too. Andy Dufresne : You see, that's tax deductible, you can write that off. Red : [to Andy, wondering when he'll be granted parole] One day, when I have a long gray beard and two or three marbles rollin' around upstairs, they'll let me out. Heywood : Red? You saying Andy's innocent?
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