When Did Penelope Come From An Alternate Ending To The Suitors?

Penelope heard the music that was coming from down stairs and at once went cascading down the great staircase with her two handmaidens at either side of her. She approached the suitors walking slowly, wearing a thin veil that hid her wicked smile. Penelope loved to use the suitors for her own entertainment on the long lonely nights hoping her for husband to return. Little did they know that despite the attention she showed them she had no intention of ever marrying any of them.

Penelope enjoyed the attention the suitors gave her laughing, talking and dancing, forgetting about her broken heart for a few moments. She would pretend that she was young again with men working to gain her affections and favor. This did happen when she was young …show more content…
When the suitors were around she seemed happy and interested in them but when they were not around she seemed sad, lonely and lost. He could not understand how she could entertain these suitors when they treated his house with such disrespect.

He was angry with her in this moment and called out “Mother let Phemius sing whatever he wants to sing. He knows best what the people want to hear and you will just need to find a way to deal with it”. Penelope somewhat embarrassed by her son’s outburst studied him closely now. He had that arrogant look he sometimes got when he wanted to remind her that despite being his mother, he was the master of this house in his fathers absents. She could also see his anger towards her and towards the suitors who were making a mess of the house.

Any bit of distraction from her grief that Penelope found from the suitors was gone now and so she turned abruptly, and marched back up the stairs with her handmaids not far behind. At the top of the stairs she held her head high and made her way to her room where she fell into her bed and let her sorrow sweep over her until her tears turned into