Close Reading: Coming Through Slaughter

In page 6 of my copy of the novel, the author writes: "What he did too little of was sleep and what he did too much of was drink and many interpreted his later crack-up as a morality tale of a talent the debauched itself. But his life at this time had a fine and precise balance to it, with a careful allotment of hours. A barber, publisher of The Cricket, a cornet player, good husband and father, and an infamous man about town...Then he cut hair until 4, then walked home and slept with Nora till 8, the two of them loving each other when they woke. And after dinner leaving for the Masonic Hall or the Globe or wherever he was playing. Onto the stage."

I think its important to analyze characters from the beginning, just as we are getting to know them. So I decided to close read this paragraph, that so completely describes Buddy Bolden. The narrator tells us exactly what kind of a person Bolden is, a hard working, alcoholic, loving and devoted family member, and a great musician. This is what we can read from the text, but I think that if we analyze Buddy, we can see some trouble in his life. All the drinks, all the women, and so little sleep could deduce the reader into thinking Bolden has another side to him.