Stories can have completely different interpretations when read by different people. Anne Sexton is proof of this theory, especially in her poem, "To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Triumph." This poem concerns the Greek myth, "Daedalus and Icarus," about a superior architect, Daedalus, and his son, Icarus. In the story, King Minos casts Daedalus and his son into the Labyrinth, where Daedalus built two pairs of wings and fastened them to Icarus' and his backs. He instructed his son to follow him and not to go too high or the sun would melt the wax holding the wings together, and not too low, or the wings would get wet. Unfortunately, Icarus did not heed his father's advice, and flew very close to the sun, where Helios melted the wax holding the wings together, and Icarus plummeted to his death.

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