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Like... yes he's an asshole but no wonder, everyone just laughs when he's sexually assaulted by Wild Bill multiple times, wets himself, they then all humiliate him more and his own prison guard colleagues put him in a strait jacket and beat him up plus the guy he electrocutes wrong isn't some harmless man, that guy killed and raped a young girl that's why he's in there. Just because someone has a pet mouse and Percy stepped on it doesn't excuse that + John Coffey resurrects the mouse later anyway

Honestly everyone but John Coffey is ass in that movie but I don't think it's right in Percy's case that his colleagues basically let a murderer and rapist sexually harrass Percy constantly, target him because he's small or feminine or young idk and let another murder and rapists then laugh at it. Like even Paul is wrong, he doesn't laugh granted but he never steps in or protects Percy and his other colleagues seem to literally love when he's sexually harrassed or pisses himself in fear

It is unreasonable to blame the other guards, I believe they might have found it hard to form friendships and relate to a person so much younger than themselves. This perhaps could have also contributed to feelings of inferiority and insecurity in Percy. I’ve also used this before, but it might’ve been a bit like entering an already established friend group. They’ve all been friends for ages and you don’t know how to get involved without making it awkward. A weak analogy considering they’re all grown men, but just trying to look at it from a more sympathetic view.

Also the other guards were nice to Percy when he showed himself willing to listen and learn while practicing for del’s execution. It was Wild Bill’s assault that made him freak out and get super defensive.

I haven’t read the book in a long time or watched the movie but from my perspective, Percy abuses the inmates because he’s a small, as you said, young and feminine guy. Paul describes him as having hands small and pale, the hands of a teenage girl. I believe Percy is well aware of his disadvantage in life, small as it may be, and he is willing to grab onto whatever power and control he can to make himself feel big and strong. Because he can only be strong around people weaker than him. He’s a selfish coward. Insecure as well.

We could easily argue Percy can change with time, he can mature. But there’s clear evidence he is just a bad person. Like after del’s execution. He is seemingly horrified at his actions, but he makes no move to take responsibility for them, more than willing to blame the painful end he has caused on an accident. Additionally, mere days after del’s death he reads a perverted book during the job. Seemingly minor but proved his ability to not linger on what he did. He finds it easy to get over.

Adding onto what I said before about wild bills assault.

Percy assumes the worst of other people, he assumes they will throw him in the padded room with wild bill, he assumes they will tell people about him urinating during the assault. He assumes this because these are things he would do.

Percy is young and young people are often mean and stupid. Especially if they’ve grown up with a silver spoon in their mouth. I am somewhat able to sympathise with Percy. And tbh, I enjoy an evil character every once in a while. But Percy is not a good person.

LIKE IDK HOW SOME OTHER MOVIES HAVE A FANDOM BUT NOT SHAWSHANK

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