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  1. Oct 2024
    1. I was afraid he would cut himself, but I said nothing.

      I think this line sums up a lot of their relationship.

    2. "Don't you know what I mean?" he asked, softly.

      I think that all throughout the story he's trying to get into Sonny's world. At first he doesn't want to be in his world, here he is trying to get in.

    3. These boys, now, were living as we'd been living then, they were growing up with a rush and their heads bumped abruptly against the low ceiling of their actual possibilities.

      I think "the low ceiling of their actual possibilities" is a line that very strongly resonates throughout the entire story. Both brothers tried to break that ceiling.