Sonny Blues

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…also important (and probably inevitable) and that it bluids on tradition, which is never fully erased but continues Towards the end of "Sonny's Blues" the narrator says, "Freedom lurked around us and I understood, at last, that he could help us to be free if we would listen, that he would never be free until we did" (863). This line, like the conclusion of "Sonny's Blues," is ambiguous and may be interpreted in many different ways.