Sonny's Blues Reflection

The most interesting part and certainly my favorite part of Sonny’s Blues was the style. The language was sophisticated but not necessarily out of place for the narrator and the context. The author had a way of describing non visual situations with such imagery that you almost imagined it. For example, when he described the darkness you could visualize the whole symbolic situation like a surrealist painting. I thought it was very impressive. His writing style was almost like good music where you aren’t really sure why it makes you feel so much but it does. I think it’s at least ironic if not symbolic that the story is about music.
The structure of the story was another thing a found interesting. The structure made you feel as though someone