Reading Homer’s The Odyssey before reading Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad gives the reader more meaningful insight into both stories. In the document, Deconstructing Gender and Myth in Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad says, “Her contemporary narrative of ‘tale-telling highlights gender and class issues which go unchallenged in The Odyssey: the physical and sexual exploitation of servant girls’” (Irshad, Shaista, and Niroj). By reading both books it is clear how one story can be experienced very differently depending on the perspective of the person telling the story. After the reading of The Penelopiad, the ideas suggested throughout The Odyssey began to lead to the questioning of the truth and credibility. Based on events in The Odyssey
