Sonny’s Blues

Jerri Dixon

English 1110-36

January 12, 2008

"Sonny's Blues"

"Sonny's Blues" is a story that opens up with Sonny's brother finding out that Sonny has been arrested for dealing heroin. He finds these things out by reading a newspaper on the subway while going to work.

Baldwin discusses Sonny's life, and about the relationship between Sonny and his older brother. He talks about how bebop and jazz was a scapegoat for Sonny's pain and suffering.

This story is told by Sonny's unnamed older brother. In the story Sonny's brother stereotypes him as being the heroin-addicted jazz musician. Sonny had been arrested