Oh, most surely, yes, he replies but the fire goes out of his assurances as the years march past, and there is the sense that he has been institutionalized - that, like another old lifer who kills himself after being paroled, he can no longer really envision life on the outside. From time to time, measuring the decades, he goes up in front of the parole board, and they measure the length of his term (20 years, 30 years) and ask him if he thinks he has been rehabilitated. He's apparently innocent, and there are all sorts of details involving his case, but after a while they take on a kind of unreality all that counts inside prison is its own society - who is strong, who is not - and the measured passage of time. ![]() Andy was a banker on the outside, and he's in for murder. Andy turns out to be a surprise to everyone in Shawshank, because within him is such a powerful reservoir of determination and strength that nothing seems to break him. ![]() But Andy does not cry, and Red loses the cigarettes he wagered.
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