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Stephen King’s novelette “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption” is portrayed through the eyes of Red. Ellis Boyd Redding holds a key role in the prisons social structure, which makes him the perfect narrator. By the end of the story Red was heavily influenced by a character named Andy Dufresne, a man who changed his views of life. The story itself is actually Red’s journal. Much of the information is second hand; thing Red heard from other p