rden was threatening Andy to turn the record off Andy disregarded him and instead turned the volume up while giving the warden a little grin. Im sure Andy and the warden both were having mixed-emotions about the situations. Mixed-Emotions is the ability to feel different emotions at the same time. Disregarding what the warden said made a big impression on the warden because it showed that Andy was not going to be put down by him and that no one else had to either. It also could be said that the warden and Andy use complementary communication, communication where one person has a powerful position while another has a subservient position. Andy is the prisoner where he must take orders whereas the warden is the one giving the orders. Andys actions during this scene fully communicated to everyone the point he was trying to make. He put hope back into everyones hearts, such as Red stated and in the briefest of moments, every last man in Shawshank felt free. It was a bonding experience for all the inmates of Shawshank. There was no criminals, no race, no bias, just men standing there listening. Andy was expressing the emotions that music can give off. Music allows you to think about things clearly and music can influences people greatly on the way they act and think. Andy needed something to use as a vent and music did just that. This form of communication is called displacement, the ability to vent aggression towards something other than what youre directly angry towards. This is how Andy showed his displacement by playing the music and felt like a regular human being again. He has been in prison for over six years at that point and was starting to feel the stages of becoming an institutional man. An institutional man is someone who has been in the prison system for a while and it becomes all they know. An institutional man, Red says, would not be able to make it on the outside because it is to fast moving in the real world a...
