Bummer..

     The entire epic of the Odyssey is centered around nostoi: homecoming. Odysseus, along with his comrades go on this journey, this unexpected adventure, all with their minds set on getting home. But even after being gone from home for ten years of war and ten years of overcoming obstacle after  obstacle, when Odysseus finally returns to Ithaca, he is not greeted as a long lost hero but as a stranger, unwelcome in even his very home. How must he have felt returning home after ten years of fighting off cyclops', hormone-crazy women, and trying not to get killed by the gods, as a traveler? I think that Odysseus' wit and cunning almost got the best of him in this case, because he was so desperate to be recognized, and yet so suspicious of everyone, that he created a situation in which he was not welcomed with as much joy and excitement as he expected. At the same time though, his family and friends were also very suspicious of any news concerning Odysseus because it had been so long, and they had so often been given false accounts. So between Odysseus' disguised arrival, and his family's lack of any hope for his return, his longed for homecoming didn't exactly live up to all of the anticipation.