The Odyssey

which line from the passage best shows that Penelope is clever?

Ruses serve my turn

to draw the time out- first a close- grained web

I had the happy thought to set up weaving

on my big loom in the hall. I said, that day:

'Young men- my suitors, now my lord is dead

let me finish my weaving before I marry,

or else my thread will have been spun in vain.

It is a shround I weave for Lord Laertes

when cold Death comes to lay him on his bier.

The country wives would hold me in dishonor

if he, with all his fortune, lay unshrouded.'

I reached their hearts that way, and they agreed.

So every day I wove on the great loom,

but every night by torchlight I unwove it;

and so for three years I deceived the Akhaians.

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Penelope does not want to marry any of the suitors. She is buying time by spinning and unspinning her burieal shroud.

reached their hearts that way, and they agreed.

So every day I wove on the great loom,

but every night by torchlight I unwove it;