life of sonny
but he does not have a good understanding of music and does not love music like Sonny does Baldwin implies that Sonny got addicted to heroin because there was so much rage and pain and misery inside him that he couldnt express it; the only time it was quenched at all was when he played the piano, and yet he still had not perfected his skills enough to allow the music to flow out of his soul through his fingers in a way that would heal him inside. Getting high was easier The difference between Sonny and the narrator is that the narrator is terrified of this kind of naked emotion.