1) What are Sonny's "blues"? Meaning, Show this character struggling against, or what takes him down? How does Sonny striveto overcome his blues? Show what is the narrator struggling against? Each character resist with more than thing. Show similarities and differences in the character's struggles and their means of coping.
2) Show how do Sonny and the narrator change? How does their relationship change? How does each character make worse the other'sstruggle or help resolve it?
3) What role does music play in Sonny's and the narrator's transformations over the course of the story?
4) Show what is the theme of the story?