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  1. 1982. Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption is a realist novella by Stephen King. It was first published in 1982 by Viking Press in his collection Different Seasons. It was later included in the 2009 collection Stephen King Goes to the Movies. The plot follows former bank vice president Andy Dufresne, who is wrongly convicted of murdering his ...

  2. Andy Dufresne. Red, who narrates Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, is a funny, self-deprecating man with “carroty red hair.”. He grew up poor, married a rich girl he impregnated, and became so frustrated with his family situation that he cut the brakes on his wife’s car, killing her and her two passengers.

  3. The 1994 film The Shawshank Redemption, based on Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, was nominated for seven Oscars. Pin-Up Girls. The actress Rita Hayworth, whose pin-up poster Andy Dufresne uses to hide the hole in his cell wall, really was a popular pin-up among U.S. soldiers during World War II, in which the fictional Andy was ...

  4. Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption is a novella by Stephen King, first published in 1982 as part of his collection Different Seasons.The story is narrated by Red, a long-term inmate at Shawshank State Penitentiary, and tells the tale of his friendship with Andy Dufresne, a banker who is wrongfully convicted of murder.

    • Red. The narrator of the story. A convicted murderer serving a life sentence, Red writes the story to try to make sense of his friendship with Andy, his life in prison, and his hopes for the future.
    • Andy Dufresne. The protagonist. The former vice president of a bank in Portland, Maine, Andy is thirty years old when he arrives at Shawshank and approximately fifty-eight when he escapes.
    • Samuel Norton. One of the prison wardens. Norton institutes the new “Inside-Out” program that forces prisoners to work on chain gains to repair roads and public buildings.
    • Byron Hadley. A prison guard. A tall man with thinning red hair, Hadley speaks loudly and uses the threat of violence to control the prisoners. Pessimistic, cynical, and paranoid, he feels the world is out to get him, even when he inherits $35,000 from a long-lost brother.
  5. In 1958, Red looks in the mirror, realizes he’s 40 and has lived in prison since 1938, notices gray in his red hair, and feels afraid. In 1959, a journalist goes undercover at Shawshank to investigate corruption, and Stammas flees, becoming a fugitive—but Andy isn’t punished. Later that year, a new warden arrives.

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  7. Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption Full Plot Summary. Red, the narrator, recounts how he planned and carried out his wife’s murder by disabling her brakes, which accidentally killed a neighbor and child as well and earned him a life sentence at Shawshank Prison. Red also remembers the arrival of an inmate named Andy Dufresne, whose ...