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It helps delay the suitors in asking for Penelope's hand immediately, as she claims she must finish the shroud for her father-in-law before she marries the next man.

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In The Odyssey, the shroud of Laertes is a symbol of Penelope's cunning and delay tactics. She tells the suitors that she will choose a new husband after she finishes weaving a burial shroud for her father-in-law, Laertes. However, each night she secretly undoes her day's weaving, thus delaying her decision and preserving her fidelity to Odysseus.

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