The story of Phaethon puzzles me. In most of the metamorphoses transformation is either a punishment for bad deeds or a reward for valiant ones. But Phaethon's ignorance and stubbornness is only punished by his death, and his sisters are forced to bear the transformation. When in context this is basically the story of a modern drunk driving accident.
Phaethon was a lowly worker at the local walmart. After a few too many drinks at the Bacchus Pub, he hears that his father is a CEO of a huge worldwide company. It doesn't seem possible he thought. he text messages his mother, a former prostitute who affirms this rumor, but he is still skeptical. He decides to go to the CEO's mansion and learn first hand. The CEO tells him it is true he his father. Still unconvinced he asks to drive the CEO's sunfire yellow Ferrari, thinking that no one in his right mind would allow a drunk Walmart employee drive his badass car unless he really was a close relative. Reluctantly he tosses the key to Phaethon. In a drunken rampage worthy of a CNN chopper chase, he drives the car too close to the police station and gets chased until he crashes into giant tree. Dead on the pavement his sisters mourn him.
no story is unique i guess.
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