gs, through music, through nightmares, through expressions on people's faces. Even the title of the story "Sonny's Blues" is full of sadness; it contains a mood of unhappiness. "Blues" is s kind of music to express sadness. The "blues" both as a state being and as music play a very important part in the story.
             The story opens with the narrator reading in the newspaper that his brother, Sonny, a jazz piano player, is in jail for selling and using drugs. The narrator sees his own reflection in the subway window " trapped in the darkness which roared outside" (Baldwin 362). On
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