In Book XIX of Homer's was talking about Odysseus returning home plan to kill the suitors and met Penelope. When Penelope hears of someone claiming to have met Odysseus somewhere in Crete and asked him about her husband but she does not trust to what the stranger says. Then Penelope tests his honesty by asking him to describe her husband: “Tell me what sort of clothes he wore, and tell me/ what he was like, and what his men were like” (XIX. 235-236). After be try a questioned by Penelope, the stranger captures detail perfectly about us. For those detail make Penelope cry again. The qualities of Penelope manifest in this book that she is a worthy match for Odysseus was determination and persistence are two quantities that Odysseus and Penelope
