

Andy tells Red that he believes in the power of hope. Soon after, when Andy plays an opera song over the jail speaker, Red describes the same sense of freedom he feels due to Andy. Red says that with time, inmates depend on jail to survive and they have no life outside. When Brooks seems dismayed and sorrowful at his own parole, Red explains to Andy and other inmates that Brooks is 'institutionalized' which means Shawshank is Brook's home and only world now. In 1955, Brooks Hatlen is to be released from prison. Red and Andy share the same fondness for chess and they play it often. Red first describes the sense of freedom Andy gave him when they drank beer after tarring a roof in 1950, a favor Hadley gives to Andy in return for his banking service. Red also helps him in small jobs when Andy does the accounting for prison guards.
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After Bogs is beaten by Hadley and Andy is rescued, Red arranges for a Rita Hayworth poster to him as a gift, free of cost. Over time they become even better and closer friends. Red obliges gladly.Įventually, Red allows Andy to join his gang of long serving inmates. After that day Red becomes curious about Andy, and likes him for his low key style.Īfter a while they do trade often and Andy asks Red to smuggle a poster of Rita Hayworth. Red is initially wary and reluctant but agrees and smuggles it in return for ten dollars.

Andy asks Red to smuggle a rock hammer from him. Finally, after a month has gone by, Andy approaches him while Red is playing catch with Heywood and Floyd.Īndy tells him he understood that Red was a guy that could get you something you wanted inside the prison. He explains that in the beginning, Andy was very quiet and didn't say two words. Thinking that Andy is weak, he bets cigarettes that Andy will be the first of the new wave of convicts to break down in tears. When Andy arrives Red doesn't consider him strong enough to live in Shawshank. Red is also an important convict with this influence over prison guards and overall prison society. He has occasionally done time in solitary for the acts.
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Red has smuggled booze, posters, cigarettes, milkshakes and once even arranged a movie screening.
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Red explains that he can smuggle a variety of goods from outside and he sells them in return for the price plus his own margin. His trade is explained in detail in the novel. Red is a prison smuggler, active since a long time. This resulted in the deaths of three people, which earned him a life sentence in prison. Unbeknownst to him, she picked up her neighbor, who brought along her infant. In order to get the payout from this policy, he cut the brakes on her car. When Red was young he discovered his wife had a valuable life insurance policy. His father-in law was a rich businessman who agreed to a marriage only if Red took a job in his business. In the novella, he is of African descent, but in the film, this comment is played off as a jest about his nickname. Red's father died when he was forty-two years old.
