The Odyssey Questions Book 21: Penelope fetches Odysseus’ bow and announces the contest to the suitors
Book 21
- Penelope fetches Odysseus’ bow and announces the contest to the suitors. How do the suitors again prove that they deserve the “blood wedding” that awaits them?
- The suitors mock at the stranger for wanting to take his turn with the bow. Penelope tells them to let him go ahead – why?
- Odysseus strings his own bow at the book’s end. How does Homer handle this moment? For example, why don’t we hear anything from the suitors right after Odysseus shoots his first arrow?
