Zachary

I could not help but get the feeling that "Sonny's Blues" was more of a pessimistic story. I understand what everyone was saying about how Sonny was recovering and that he had found a life in his music. The last few pages though struck me as heading in a very different direction. So he's trying to get out of heroin use and is a talented musician, but his seems to continue to be tortured while at the piano. It was in the way he looked out the window at the people in the street. He seemed to talk to the narrator with a sort of maturity, as though he had been to the gates of hell and stared down the devil himself. It seemed almost as though only by being scarred such that he had truly awakened to the world and all of the happy little people in the world are still asleep. His music is just his vehicle for conveying that idea.