Need to be realistic
A female prison instructor has been arrested for providing tools to the Shawshank boys. It's an unfortunately typical story. The boys obviously promised her something romantic, at least implicitly.

You need to be realistic. You need to understand that romance depends solely and strictly on innate qualities. Impressive or Attractive people get loved. Matt and Sweat are both Impressive, but Joyce is NOT Attractive. She might have been Attractive when younger, but I sort of doubt it. Her face shows the marks of long-lasting defeat.

When you are neither Impressive nor Attractive, love is not going to happen. Love is not in your universe. Anything that looks like love is a con game. You should run away fast.

This is an especially tragic way to learn the facts of life. Now Joyce is going to be in prison on the other side of the bars, and her lack of Attractiveness is going to cause big trouble.

She should have demanded money instead, and she should have RECEIVED the money before providing the tools. In that transaction she would have owned all the power, and she would get some respect after switching sides.

Practical sidenote: The "news" articles say that Joyce brought in a hacksaw blade, drill bits, and safety goggles. No reason to doubt that, but the actual work was NOT done with a hacksaw. Physically impossible. It was done with a power tool like a Sawzall. Somebody else must have supplied the electric drill and the Sawzall.


A couple weeks later: The whole thing with Joyce doesn't make much sense. Turns out Matt and Sweat didn't need any smuggled tools at all; they were simply borrowing tools at night from a construction project. Supposedly Joyce was going to be the getaway driver but then backed out; also not needed, since Matt and Sweat obviously had a better getaway plan. Was Joyce's participation an intentional distraction? Purely Joyce's imagination? We'll never know, but the original story line doesn't work.

And then just a couple hours later: Finally it all comes out and makes sense. The assistance story was a distraction AND a fabrication. In fact Joyce had been plotting with the two escapees to kill her husband, who was also a prison employee. She turned in the escapees in the hope of gaining a little clemency.
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