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I have tried to make sure that a reader can feel inside the characters in the poem, to convey the ways that each character in the poem has her or his own distinctive point of view...I hope readers can see each character, even the minor ones, as people with a rounded, complete perspective on their lives.

...if Penelope remarries, Odysseus will lose not only a person he loves, but also, perhaps more important, all his economic wealth and social status.