The Legend Of Penelope In Homer's Odyssey

The story of Penelope

I have been waiting twenty years for my husband Odysseus to return but all of my hope has just about been about lost, everyday new suitors come to my kingdom raiding my supplies eating up my food and the worst thing is they will not leave no matter what I say, they all wish to make me their bride and they all compete for my affection, no matter how hard i wish to wait for Odysseus to return i can not anymore so i have decided that it will be best for me to choose a suitor as my champion but it will be in a form of a competition. I grabbed my husband's bow and mourned over him for a while then i cleaned myself up and told the men the contest they seemed pleased they thought it would be easy but,the men had tried their

hardest but none of them had success when a man had walked in he was a scraggly man, everyone looked at him and then carried on with whatever they were doing the man seemed like he wanted to get into the contest as well but the men were not letting him, he started hooting and hollering at them and it infuriated them especially Eurymachus they became feared when he told them he was Odysseus. Which got quite a reaction out of them, at first that foolish Eurymachus did not believe then his reaction changed when the man started shouting on and on about how he was going to make their blood cover the walls, my son seemed pretty fond of this man helping him in battle by the end the man had won the competition and killed all the suitors. Later that day i had thought up of a good plan i had made a exact model of the bed Odysseus made with his bare
Hands this bed was the foundation that we built are kingdom around and sure enough i knew it was my husband when i saw his reaction he screamed and cried how it would be impossible to move the bed, and then a sigh of relief left me i knew it was him tears bubbled in my eyes i ran over to Odysseus and hugged him i was so relieved i knew he was home.