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Do You Know Where Your Husband Is?

• By Wei Du

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First Reaction

• Dear nurse the gods have touched you.
  Penelope (23 11)

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Penelopes Belief

• But the true person of Odysseus? He lost his
  home, he died far from Akhaia. Penelope (23
  74 75)

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Skeptical Penelope

• And she, for a long time, sat deathly still in
  wonderment for sometimes as she gazed she found
  him yes, clearly like her husband, but
  sometimes blood and rags were all she saw. (23
  105 108)

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Penelopes Doubts

• I could not welcome you with love on sight! I
  armed myself long ago against the frauds of men,
  imposters who might come and all those many
  whose underhanded ways bring evil on! Penelope
  (23 241 245)

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Penelopes Test

• If really he is Odysseus, truly home, beyond
  all doubt we two shall know each other better
  than you or anyone. There are secret signs we
  know, we two. Penelope (23 122 125)

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Odysseus Answer

• Theres our sign! I know no more. Could
  someone elses hand have sawn that trunk and
  dragged the frame away? Odysseus (23 228
  300)

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Couples Reunion

• and so she too rejoiced, her gaze upon her
  husband, her white arms round him pressed as
  though forever. (23 269 270)

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The End