Hope
As cliché as it might sound, Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption is a story about hope.The hope for something better, hope for the future, hope to keep your head up when you're locked in a...
The Posters
Andy's girlie posters represent a sort of hope, the same way the beer and the library do, but they also symbolize freedom (Which to Andy is almost the same thing.).You look at those pretty women an...
Rocks
Andy told me once that all of geology is the study of pressure. And time, of course. (467-468) Not so subtle here, Mr. King. The rocks that Andy finds in the prison yard turn into a symbol of how h...