Odysseus tells her how their bed was made, and she knows no on else could know how the bed was made.
Penelope reprimands him for treating the stranger to the castle roughly. At this time she does not know that the stranger is Odysseus, her husband.
The stranger tests Penelope's loyalty and patience by trying to woo her in Odysseus's absence. Penelope uses the stranger's presence as a way to buy time and delay having to choose a suitor, while secretly hoping for Odysseus's return.
Penelope promised to marry the tattered stranger if he succeeded in shooting the arrow through the axes. This challenge was set to test his identity as her husband Odysseus upon his return home.
Odysseus
Penelope is the wife of Odysseus, when Odysseus was away she was purseued by many suitors. She said she would only marry them when she had finished the tapestry she was making, she continued to work on the tapestry but unpicked her work each night. When Odysseus finally returned home her through out all the suitors. Penelope is offered as the epitome of a faithful wife. She had every reason to believe Odysseus was dead, and no one would have faulted her for taking another husband. But she remained faithful to her husband nonetheless. This
It has been many years since she has seen him, and other men having been trying repeatedly to gain her affection, She wanted to be sure he was him.
Penelope's final test for Odysseus is to ask him to move their bed, which Odysseus built himself and knows cannot be moved because it is constructed from an olive tree trunk that is part of the structure of their home. Odysseus passes the test by revealing this secret detail, allowing Penelope to finally recognize him as her husband.
The suitors hope that Penelope will choose one of them as her new husband, as they believe Odysseus will never return. They have been pressuring Penelope to make a decision and have been waiting for her to give them an answer.
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False. Penelope does not immediately recognize Odysseus when he returns home in the epic "The Odyssey." She tests him to see if he is truly her husband by setting up the challenge of stringing his bow and shooting an arrow through a line of axes.
No they are not
The stranger, Roger Chillingworth, is Hester's husband. He does not want people to know that he is her husband.