Andy Dufresne

Andy Dufresne is one of the main characters in the 1994 drama film ''The Shawshank Redemption. ''He is a banker who is convicted of murdering his wife and her lover. He is also a rockhound

Imprisionment
In 1947, Andy Dufresne is convicted of murdering his wife and her lover. He claims to be innocent but the police say that they have evidnce. He is sent to Shawshank Pennitentary to serve two life sentences. Upon entering the prision, he meets Captain Byron Hadley, a brutal prision guard who is in charge of security and the warden, Mr. Samuel Norton, who is seemed to be a devout christian who gives his inmates discipline and a bible.

For the first month Andy says nothing and keeps to himself. One day, he meets an African-American inmate smuggler Ellis "Red" Redding. He tells Red that he is rockhound and he asks Red for a rock hammer. During lights out, Andy finds his rock hammer.

During the first few years of his imprisionment, he works in the laundry department cleaning other prisoners clothes and he is tormented by a group of prison rapists called the Bull Queers lead by Bogs Diamond. They sometimes beat him up and will often rape him. Andy is able to fight them off sometimes and sometimes not. On a summer day when most of Andy's friends are working on the prision roof, Andy helps Captain Hadley with his tax problems in exchange for his prisioners having some beerOne day, while the other prisoners are watching a movie starring actress Rida Hayworth, Andy asks Red is he can smuggle a poster of Rita Hayworth for him. Red says yes but it will take some time. On the way back to the projector room, the Bull Queers attack him so hard that he is sent to the infirmary. Bogs is sent into solitary confinment and is later beaten to death by Captain Hadley. He is sent to a minimum security hospital and his gang has since left Andy alone. When Andy gets out of the infirmary, he finds a poster of Rita Hayworth on his bed.

One day during surprise inspection, Warden Norton admires Andy for reading his Bible and offers him to move from laundry to the library with Brooks, the prison's old librarian. There, Andy is given respect from the other prisioners and guards and protection from the guards. He decides to write letters to the city requesting more books and funds to expand the prision's library, a thing that the warden says is impossible but lets him do it anyway. While in the process of writing letters, Brooks is given parole to leave Shawshank and eventually kills himself because he couldn't handle the outside world.

After two years of letters, the city finally gives in to Andy's demands and gives him a check for $2,000 and crates of records and books.