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'''Narrator''': He is a math teacher and he is 7 years older than Sonny. | '''Narrator''': He is a math teacher and he is 7 years older than Sonny. | ||
'''Sonny''': He is the narrator's brother, jazz musician, and heroin addict who lived in New York. | '''Sonny''': He is the narrator's brother, jazz musician, and heroin addict who lived in New York. He died when he got hit by a car while walking home from a concert with the narrator’s father. | ||
'''Isabel''': The wife of the narrator. She is kind and understanding person and happy to take sonny into their family, despite his troubles. | '''Isabel''': The wife of the narrator. She is a kind and understanding person and happy to take sonny into their family, despite his troubles. | ||
'''Grace''': The narrator's daughter who died of polio at the age of two. | '''Grace''': The narrator's daughter who died of polio at the age of two. | ||
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'''The narrator's Father''': He is also not alive and he is a hard man whose brother's death causes him immense grief. | '''The narrator's Father''': He is also not alive and he is a hard man whose brother's death causes him immense grief. | ||
'''Sonny's Friend''': He is a heroin addict visits the narrator to tell him what happened to Sonny. He is an unnamed soul whose brief appearance in the novel represents the innumerable young guys in Harlem who are addicted to drugs. | '''Sonny's Friend''': He is a heroin addict who visits the narrator to tell him what happened to Sonny. He is an unnamed soul whose brief appearance in the novel represents the innumerable young guys in Harlem who are addicted to drugs. | ||
==Major themes== | ==Major themes== | ||