Sonny's Blues

It's interesting how the author related Sonny's addiction to the music that he played. The author noticed that when Sonny played the piano, he always had an emotion on his face. What the author got from this was that playing the piano was Sonny's way of channeling his problems. It was through music that he channeled this as apposed to drugs. Drugs were always his way to deal with the problems but instead of bottling them up and using drugs to make them go away, the author sees Sonny now using music to express the problems. Sonny can play out his problems through the blues, which is mainly what the blues are about. Blues are a way to express all of your bottled up emotions through music. All that Sonny needed to do was unbottle his emotions, though in the beginning he didn't there was an easy way to express them without actually talking about the problems. With the blues, you can describe the emotion of the problems without directly saying what the problems are, which makes it a lot easier to express these said problems.