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- Sonny wakes up from one of his stupors, hearing Willie call out his name. He feels sick. He’s a forty-five year old dope fiend, and he knows he needs help. When his mother leaves, unable to find him, he picks himself up off the ground and goes out into the street.
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Sonny Summary: Sonny. Sonny’s mother, Willie, comes to bail him out of jail after he is arrested for protesting against segregation. Willie chastises him for ending up in jail again. However, Sonny thinks of how his work will never be done, as segregation is impossible in America while white people own everything.
One of the tragedies of Sonny’s chapter is in seeing how damaging Robert’s disappearance had been on Sonny, and how their family had become so broken that Sonny only goes to see his mother to ask for money.
May 22, 2021 · In a way, Lucy’s disappearance happens to Lois as well. Indeed, the two are close enough that when Lois tells Cappie that just before Lucy disappeared, “She said you could dive off there. She said it went straight down” (148), Cappie deftly turns this hint of a suicide wish into proof of Lois’s own guilt—and Lois, in a way, accepts it.
The next time the narrator sees Sonny they are both back in New York after the war, and he feels that Sonny’s life is “weird and disordered,” a problem that the narrator believes is fueled by music. After a terrible fight, the narrator comes to Sonny’s apartment to make up, but Sonny won’t speak to him.
As he wonders what Sonny's face is like now, we learn what the newspaper story is about: Sonny, the narrator's younger brother, has been arrested for selling and using heroin. Apparently the narrator had suspected that Sonny was dabbling in drugs, but he tried to ignore his suspicions.
The narrator then discusses when Sonny was in prison. Though Sonny was arrested in the spring, the narrator doesn’t write him until months later. During the fall, the narrator’s daughter Isabel suddenly dies of polio after developing what the narrator and Isabel assumed “had just been a cold” (37).
Sonny ends up in prison for heroin use. The narrator struggles with what has happened between him and his brother. He feels that he has not kept the promise he made to his mother, but he also...
