Epic+Simile11

Line 230 “…I tried 3 times, putting my arms around her, but she went through sifting through my hands, impalpable as shadows are, and wavering like a dream,” (pg. 191). Explanation: During this scene, Odysseus is talking to his dead mother. Odysseus wishes to hold her and cry with her, but he cannot because she no longer has a body. The mother is compared to a shadow, because they are just an image of what was really true, the same as this spirit. She is also compared to a wavering dream. In a dream some people can go back to what they wish, and can be with people who have already died. The spirits waves because it is not really there: it is just an image.