Tillie Olsens I Stand Here Ironing and James Baldwin’s...

Pain and suffering is what brings these two stories together, â€Å"Sonny’s Blue† by James Baldwin and Tillie Olsen’s â€Å"I Stand Here Ironing†, both of the narrator describe their feeling towards their love one. Sonny’s Blues is a story about an ambitious musician’s life as it is seen through his older brother’s eyes. The story originates with Sonny’s older brother, who is an Algebra teacher, and finding out that Sonny has been sent to prison due to drugs. He finds this out by reading about the case in the newspaper because seemingly Sonny’s lifestyle has caused the brothers to lose contact. After a tragedy hits, the brother reaches out to Sonny in an effort to repair their relationship. In this story the two brothers love each other, but they dont understand each other and they dont tolerate each others lives because they love each other so much that they have the power to really hurt one another, but they also show how strong the connections are that bind them, because in the end they find their way back to each other and repeat how much they need each other. The idea of suffering lingers obviously over Sonnys Blues. In the story, it seems every character suffers in some way from pain, poverty, addiction, and limited chances in life. The constant of being there the grief wears the characters down, and while some are accepting of it, the other characters continue to fight it suffering is spoken in many ways in this story through music, drug use, on peoples faces, the