Sympathy In Daedalus

In Daedalus, the author's tone toward the story is sympathy. As the story begins the author wants the readers to have sympathy when Daedalus pushes his nephew and regrets it. The author says “...it had been a crazy impulse… next instant horrified at what he had done, he rushed down to the boy. But it was too late.”(pg 1). As the story continue the tone of sympathy shown by the authors description of Daedalus yearning to leave but couldn’t. The author says “...he felt no better then a prisoner… for that reason he yearned to go.”(pg 2). At the end the author prompt the act of sympathy by Daedalus’s son Icarus’s wings disintegrated and fell to his death. The author says “ Even as he cried, the deep blue water of the sea that ever since has been