Penelope And The Suitor Essay

The odyssey is one of the oldest and well known myths written by homer. The odyssey is the story of odysseus and his loyal wife penelope. For most of the story odysseus and penelope are not together but when odysseus returns home disguised as a beggar she tests odysseus and the two finally are finally reunited.in the odyssey the suitors try to marry penelope but penelope declines there offer because she is brave. In the painting Penelope and the Suitors, John William Waterhouse uses the myth of the Odyssey to show that people will do anything to gain power, while in the poem “Penelope”, Dorothy Parker uses the same scene to show that most people appreciate and notice only the adventurous and heroic bravery but fail to recognize the uneventful …show more content…
22, 1893 near Long Beach, N.J., U.S ("Dorothy Parker." Britannica School). She went to school at Miss Dana’s School in Morristown, New Jersey later she went to school at Blessed Sacrament Convent School in New York City ("Dorothy Parker." Britannica School ). She married Edwin Pond Parker II in 1917 and later she divorced in 1928 but kept her surname for her career she remarried in 1933 to alan campbell and both worked in hollywood as film writers together and were nominated for an academy award ("Dorothy Parker." Britannica School ). she worked at the the ¨editorial staff for vogue magazine she later transferred to ¨Vanity Fair as a drama critic¨she was fired from her job at vanity fair in 1920 for her sharp tone about her review she later worked for the new yorker magazine on 1927 to much of the rest of her career. She became known as the constant reader for the new york times ("Dorothy Parker." Britannica School ). Dorothy Parker traveled to europe in the 1920s and met many people like ¨Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, socialites Gerald and Sarah Murph¨(“Dorothy parker.” Poets.org ). In 1929 Dorothy parker won the O. Henry Award for short story with “Big Blonde.” (“Dorothy parker.” Poets.org ). Dorothy Parker was one of the founders of the algonquin round table which is a group of actors , journalist, and critics that met together to eat lunch. On 1963 dorothy Parker's husband died of an overdose (“Dorothy parker.” Poets.org ).Dorothy Parker had developed a drinking problem (“Witticist and Wisecracker Dorothy Parker: In Her Own Words.”). When Dorothy parker was visiting a hotel in new york on june 6th 1967 she had a heart attack and died (“Dorothy parker.” Poets.org