Varnish reveals his initial reluctance to get into the guard role, which was so apparent that I had to get the warden to set him straight. “It wasn’t till the second day that I decided I would have to force myself to really go about this thing in the right way. I had to intentionally shut off all feelings I had towards any of the prisoners, to lose sympathy and any respect for them. I began to treat them as coldly and harshly as possible verbally. I would not let show any feelings they might like to see, like anger or despair.”
