"I read about it in the paper, in the subway, on my way to work. I read it, and couldn't believe it, and I read it again. Then perhaps I just stared at it, at the newsprint spelling out his name, spelling out the story. I stared at it in the swinging of the subway car, and in the faces and bodies of the people, and in my own face, trapped in the darkness which roared outside." ( 53) Relating back to the narrator's values, he seems to have become a very upstanding gentleman. He wants to be the successful man and only wants the best for himself and his family. To tie in with the title, you also see that his daughter Grace has died. This relates to the Blues because it shows sorrow in death and the name of the daughter signifies that there could possibly be some hopes in helping his brother get out of his addiction. He is deeply concerned when he reads an article about his brother on the front page of the paper explaining to the subscriber that someone was arrested for
Cited: Baldwin, James. "Sonny 's Blues." Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia. Pearson/ Longman: New York. 2005. 53-76.