Gilgamesh reaches Utnapishtim and his wife, demanding immortality. Utnapishtim decides to give Gilgamesh a test if he passes Gilgamesh receives immortality, but if he fails he won’t get anything. The test is to stay awake for six days and seven nights. Sadly, Gilgamesh fails his test as he falls asleep almost immediately. Utnapishtim’s wife is able to soften Utnapishtim towards Gilgamesh and request her husband to wake Gilgamesh up. “Touch the man to wake him, so that he may return to his own land in peace, going back through the gate by which he came” (39). After seven days Utnapishtim wakes Gilgamesh up and explains that Gilgamesh failed his test. Heartbroken, Gilgamesh gets ready to sail away and to return to Uruk, but Utnapishtim wife asks
