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Linda Collins Dufresne is Andy Dufresne’s wife. In 1947, she begins taking golf lessons at the Falmouth Hills Country Club from a golf pro named Glenn Quentin. Linda and Glenn begin an adulterous relationship. After Andy discovers the affair, Linda tells him she wants a divorce. When Andy refuses, Linda goes to Glenn’s place for the night—where she and Glenn are murdered by burglar Elwood Blatch. Andy is wrongfully convicted of Linda and Glenn’s murders.
Linda Collins Dufresne Quotes in Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption
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Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption Quotes
It was that last fact that militated more against Andy than any of the others. The DA with the political aspirations made a great deal of it in his opening statement and his closing summation. Andrew Dufresne, he said, was not a wronged husband seeking a hot-blooded revenge against his cheating wife; that, the DA said, could be understood, if not condoned. But this revenge had been of a much colder type. Consider! the DA thundered at the jury. Four and four! Not six shots, but eight! He had fired the gun empty . . . and then stopped to reload so he could shoot each of them again!
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“I think it’s at least possible that he convinced himself. It was the limelight. Reporters asking him questions, his picture in the papers . . . all topped, of course, by his star turn in court. I’m not saying that he deliberately falsified his story, or perjured himself. I think it’s possible that he could have passed a lie detector test with flying colors, or sworn on his mother’s sacred name that I bought those dishtowels. But still . . . memory is such a goddam subjective thing.”
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Linda Collins Dufresne Character Timeline in Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption
The timeline below shows where the character Linda Collins Dufresne 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
...had a high-ranking job in a Portland bank. He was convicted of murdering his wife (Linda) and the man she was having an affair with (Glenn Quentin). The narrator says that...
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...his profile. Andy agreed with the prosecutor’s account in some respects: in 1947 his wife Linda started taking golf lessons at a country club and began an affair with her instructor,...
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Glenn and Linda were each shot four times, which the district attorney claimed showed Andy was an emotionless,...
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Andy testified that after he began to hear rumors about Linda and Glenn, he followed Linda when she’d said she’d be shopping and saw her go...
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Andy also testified he’d been drinking continuously between his discovery of the affair and Linda’s murder. The narrator thinks the jurors didn’t believe Andy due to his emotional cool. But...
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...his innocence. When the DA asked how Andy would explain the murders, since Glenn and Linda weren’t robbed (and so there was no alternative motive), Andy couldn’t. The jury voted to...
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...have happened the night of the murders. Andy thinks a “burglar” or a “psychopath” killed Linda and Glenn; he blames his conviction on a coincidence, which “condemned [him] to spend the...
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...act accordingly. When Red asks 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...
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