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The Question and Answer section for Sonny’s Blues is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
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So we drove along, between the green of the park and the stony, lifeless elegance of hotels and apartment buildings, toward the vivid, killing streets of our childhood. These streets hadn't changed, though housing projects jutted up...
The narrator give Sonny's friend six dollars.
"Sonny's Blues" is told in the first person from the point of view of an unnamed narrator who, we find out, is Sonny's brother. "Sonny's Blues" takes place in Harlem during the early 1950s.
