Wright ends her marriage by killing her husband by strangling him in his sleep with a rope, which is her finally taking her life in a new direction to gain freedom. However, in doing so, she opens herself up to the possibility of being incarcerated and even more repressed than she was to begin with. Sonny does the same thing and as a result of his estrangement and career as a musician he gets involved in drugs and that's when he starts to lose control of his life. Sonny becomes vulnerable to drugs and has this passion for music and wants to continue with it, however, the music scene is what brought him to drugs and is what will continue to bring him back. Although he has sought his freedom and control over his life in music, he must battle heroin to maintain it. In reality, the moments when Sonny does drugs is when he has this false sense of security and like he can take on the world. “It makes you feel like you're in control. Sometimes you have to have that feeling. While taking these drugs, Sonny feels like he has agency in a way, and he searches for this feeling of control that he gets from the drugs because he never had that when he was a kid, he always missed it