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Jim is a “close friend” of Andy Dufresne; they served together in France and Germany during World War II. After Andy is accused of murder, Jim takes his side. He helps Andy sell his stocks and consolidate his wealth. After Andy’s conviction, Jim creates a fake identity for Andy, Peter Stevens. He arranges the indefinite rental of a safe deposit box under Peter Stevens’s name and hides Andy’s wealth and Peter Steven’s forged identity documents there. Then he places the safe deposit box key under an old paperweight of Andy’s in a hayfield in Buxton, Maine, and lets Andy know how to find it. Jim dies around 1961. After Andy’s escape from Shawshank in 1975, however, Andy is able to use Jim’s diligent preparations to enter Mexico and start a new life there.
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Jim Character Timeline in Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption
The timeline below shows where the character Jim appears in Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption
...whether Andy acted accordingly, Andy says yes: after his wife Linda’s murder, a friend named Jim, who died in 1961, helped him sell his stocks. After Andy’s conviction, Jim also created...
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...him these days” to make Tommy testify. Andy explains that, with him in prison and Jim dead, he can’t access Peter Stevens’s money. He tells Red that in a town called...
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