In Baldwin's “Sonny's Blues,” I feel like the narrator's deceased daughter's name Grace symbolized the significance of why “Sonny's Blues” was written. For example: “I read about Sonny's problems in the spring. Little Grace died in the fall. She was a beautiful little girl. But he lived only a little more than two years. She died of polio and suffered. And when he screamed, it was the worst sound, Isabel says, she had ever heard in her entire life, and still hears it sometimes in her dreams. Isabel sometimes wakes me up with a low, whining, strangling sound and I have to be quick to wake her up and hold her to me and where Isabel is crying against me it feels like a mortal wound. I think I wrote to Sonny the very day little Grace was buried. I was sitting in the living room in the dark, alone, and suddenly I thought of Sonny. My problems made his real. (The Literary Experience 401) In this passage, Little Grace had represented Sonny's brother's way of writing to Sonny how he is doing. In other words, Grace's death had caused Sonny's brother to realize or cause great concern about Sonny's current situation.