From whose point of view is “Sonny’s Blues” told? How do the narrator’s values and experiences affect his view of the story?
What will be an ideal response?
- Although the story’s title implies that it is about Sonny, this is actually a story narrated by the unnamed older brother about his own transformation. The basic conflict of the story is the narrator’s inability to understand and respect the life of the younger brother he so clearly loves.
Baldwin carefully establishes the brothers as opposites. The narrator is a cautious, respectable family man. He teaches math and is proud of his professional standing. Living in a Harlem housing project, he consciously protects himself and his family from the dangers that surround him. He wants to avoid the illegal, dishonest activities of those around him, and he chooses to work hard rather than obtaining money the “easy” way through drug dealing. His identification with Louis Armstrong rather than Charlie Parker reveals much about his view of race and culture. Notice how intensely he appears to dislike Sonny’s friend, the drug addict, when he encounters him in the school courtyard at the beginning of the story. However, the narrator is also compassionate, and it is important to see, in the same episode, how quickly he recognizes and responds to the addict’s battered humanity. That gesture prefigures his reconciliation with his brother by the end of the story.
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What will be an ideal response?
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