Heywood is a prisoner and a member of Red's gang of long-serving convicts. He begins laundering money and using Andy to help him get ahead, but his greed eventually comes back to bite him when Andy takes the money for himself and turns Norton in to the cops. His religiosity veils a cold-blooded ruthlessness that he uses to run a Machiavellian operation at Shawshank. Although he presents himself as pious and ethical, he is actually cruel, corrupt, and remorseless. Norton is the devout Christian warden of the prison. However, the memory of Andy's instructions leads him to the oak tree in Buxton, where he finds money and an invitation to Mexico, which he readily accepts. When Red is finally released on parole, he fears he will not make it in the real world, and comes close to committing suicide. He is soulful, strong, and knowledgable, but struggles to muster the kind of hope that Andy has for freedom. The head prison smuggler, Red becomes close friends with Andy. Red is the narrator of the film, a seasoned inmate at Shawshank who "knows how to get things." He was convicted of murder nearly twenty years prior to the start of the film, and is calm, authoritative, friendly, and smart. After his expert getaway, he takes Norton's money, stages Norton's demise, and flees to Mexico, leaving a trail behind for Red to follow. Andy's determination pays off, however, and he eventually escapes from Shawshank without anyone realizing until he's long gone. Red describes Andy as meticulous, and is often perplexed by Andy's sense of hope, even when the odds are stacked against him. He writes to the Senate every week for several years petitioning for funds to revamp the prison library, and helps inmates earn educations they otherwise would not have received. All the while, he is a supportive, generous, and selfless prisoner, helping his fellow inmates without asking anything in return. He soon becomes the undercover financial advisor to nearly all the prison guards, earning their protection and the respect of his fellow inmates. Soon enough, Andy proves that his unassuming manner masks an ingenious sense of strategy and confidence. At Shawshank, Dufresne becomes the target of sexual abuse by a prison clique, The Sisters, because of his reputation as a soft-spoken and stuck-up inmate. While he alleges that he was wrongfully convicted, the evidence does not support him. At the start of the film, he is sentenced to two life terms for murdering his wife and her lover. Before getting locked up in Shawshank, Dufresne served as vice president of a bank in Portland, Maine.
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