He also remembers the last day he saw his mother while he was on leave from the army. His mother had told him to watch out for his brother. After talking to his mother, the narrator returned to the army and never thought about his brother again until his mother died. At the funeral, the two brothers sat and talked about Sonny's plans for his future. Sonny told his brother that he dreamed of becoming a famous jazz musician. The narrator did not agree with his brother's idea, so he arranged for Sonny to move in with his wife's family and go to college instead. Sonny didn't want to do it but agreed anyway. Sonny loved music so much, but the rest of the family wasn't okay with constantly playing the piano. Sonny had gotten in trouble for skipping school. When confronted by the mother of the family, he admitted that he had skipped class to hang out with musicians in Greenwich Village. After the fight, Sonny begins to feel like a heavy burden on his family: so two days later Sonny enlists in the Navy. The narrator never knows if his brother was alive or dead until one day he receives a postcard from him from Greece. After the war the brothers return to New York but are never heard from. The times they saw each other they argued about the decisions Sonny made in his life. Sonny tells the narrator that he will be dead afterward