1. Vice in Pauls Case and Sonny Blues
... otherwise stifled vice. Paul furthermore defies his father in his sense of cultural capital in New York. On Cordelia Street, pride is derived in a child's "progress in school, [his] grades in arithmetic, and the amounts [he] had saved in [his] toy bank"(226). The man who Paul's father holds as his ... is completely inappropriate for the school environment (222). His search for self - definition leads Paul away from his family and straight into the indulgence of his "nasty habit" and eventually to his death, much like Sonny's musical endeavor pulls him towards the use of drugs. Unlike P...
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