As it is, the only way that you can deal with it is by doing great violence to the assumption on which the vocabulary is based. What I tried to do, or to interpret and make clear, was that no society can smash the social contract and be exempt from the consequences, and the consequences are chaos for everybody in the society. Even if some of his conclusions are lost in vague statements- like eg. The implicit assumption here is that childhood is a holistic state, whereas the process of growing older maims the individual. Here,then, is the adult who has never accepted adult responsibility, a mature man whose 'childlike' qualities emphasize his adult deformity.
Childhood here serves as the measure of adult defotmity.
The underlying cause of the ambiguity of narration seems to be coming from the ambiguous attitude of Sonny's brother, the narrator, towards his brother, Sonny. On the one hand, Sonny is a young adult, who should no longer be patronized or protected. On the other hand, Sonny's brother promised their mother to protect his brother by all means, and as it was the last meeting of Sonny's mother and his brother, now the brother feels the terrible burden of his promise. The ambiguity of narration is beautifully completed and dissolved in the final scene, when the brother orders two drinks for Sonny, a glass of milk and a glass of Scotch. The former representing childhood and protection, the latter representing adulthood and responsibility.