The growth of Telemachus is evident in his gaining of authority over the suitors while his father Odysseus is in his long journey toward home to Ithaca. With Odysseus gone, someone must take his place in the meantime in order to have some control over the chaos surrounding his home, a chaos that centers on Odysseus' wife who must decide whether to remarry or hold onto the hope that her husband is still alive, and who better to do so than his son Telemachus. However, as Alex Gottesman writes in his…
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