Analysis Of Sonny Blues By James Baldwin

Sonny Blues is a story written by James Baldwin. It is a story regarding alienation, suffering, anger, and pain. However, it is also considered as a story regarding redemption. It can be realized from the story as in the start of the work, the narrator is disconnected and lost and is away from his family as well as isolated from his community. Despite the title of the story, the evidence in the story “Sonny Blues” determines that it is jazz and more specifically bebop which is played by Sonny. For the author of the story, James Baldwin, the blues must not be considered as a special genre of the music. Instead, it must be considered as something far more universal.
The narrator has determined that the blues are the tale of how we tend to suffer,