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- Andy is sentenced to life in Shawshank for two murders he insists he didn't commit, and while he may seem to accept his unjust punishment, he actually spends his two decades of incarceration tunneling his way to freedom.
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Andrew "Andy" Dufresne is the protagonist of Stephen King's Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption and the Warner Brothers film adaptation. Andy is sentenced to two life sentences one for the murder of his wife and one for her lover, a crime he truly didn't commit.
Andy was an American banker in Portland, Maine. Despite his young age, he was very successful and quickly rose to the role of Vice President. At some point, he married his wife Linda, after proposing to her in a hay field in Buxton. Andy later admitted that although he loved his wife very much, he didn't know how to show it. This gradually caused Linda to become more distant from him.
Then in early 1946, Linda started taking golf classes with professional golf pro Glen Quentin as her tutor. Eventually, the pair began an affair, which Andy eventually discovered. When confronted, Linda admitted to the affair, told her husband that she was glad he now knew and that there would be no more sneaking around. Following the argument, she went to Glen's house. Andy followed in a state of inebriation. He brought his revolver to the scene, squatting on a whiskey bottle, shattering it into pieces leaving his asshole bloodied.
Although Andy considered confronting and scaring the pair, ultimately he decided not to go through with it. He went back home to sober up, throwing his gun into the river along the way. Not long afterwards, career criminal, Elmo Blatch, currently working as a waiter at the resort Glen was staying at broke into the golfers house. When Glen and Linda woke up, Blotch killed them both, by shooting them multiple times.
Due to the aforementioned material he had left at the crime scene, Andy was wrongfully charged with the double homicide. At the trial, he did his best to try and clear up the misunderstanding, but the prosecutions evidence and arguments were much more solid. In the end, Andy was convicted of two counts of murder and received two life sentences, without the possibility of parole. Despite all of this, Andy continued to maintain his innocence.
Andy was sent to Shawshank State Prison. The first twelve years were harsh on Andy. He was regularly targeted by the Sisters, a gang of prison rapists, and originally ignored by many of the other inmates. Over time though he built up a friendship with Ellis Boyd Redding "Red", though his harassment by the Sisters continued. Eventually, however, Andy was able to use his skills to turn his life around.
Andy was able to help the warden and the prison staff because of his knowledge of finances and tax law. As a result, he was exempt from manual labor and harassment by his fellow inmates, (Captain Hadley even beat up the lead sister Bogs following an assault, which left Andy in the infirmary for a month). Taking on a position in the library, Andy wrote letters to the state for forty years asking for books and funds to help build a prison library. After he succeeded in getting funds for the library, he was thrown in The Hole for playing Duettino Sull'aria a piece of opera music over the loudspeakers for the entire prison to hear. Even so, Andy was not deterred. He continued to send letters until the state finally relented and sent him an annual fund of $50,000 "just to shut him up."
The film tells the story of banker Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins), who is sentenced to life in Shawshank State Penitentiary for the murders of his wife and her lover, despite his claims of innocence.
Dec 6, 2023 · In ' Shawshank Redemption,' Andy Dufresne has been accused of murdering his wife and her lover. Even though he calmly and quietly insists he is innocent - under unrelenting cross-examination in...
Jun 18, 2024 · The ending of the film still leaves some viewers puzzled, however, as they watch Freeman’s character, Red, walk across a beach to meet protagonist Andy Dufresne. What are the chances that the two would have been able to meet again?
Jun 15, 2023 · In the book, Andy Dufresne and Ellis Boyd "Red" Reddington both get out of prison the same way as in the movie, with Andy escaping and Red making parole, but they never meet up together in...
Andy's wife and lover are killed that night and boy does Andy look guilty. Off he goes to Shawshank. He arrives and works in the laundry for a while. He asks Red to smuggle in a rock hammer so he can continue his geology hobby. Andy struggles to fend off the local rape gang.
