s throughout the story, but always exhibits control inthinking and actions. Look at the careful planning and patience when waiting forthe time to kill all his suitors. Another duration, Odysseus wants to punish hismen many times over for the greed and stupidity they show throughout theirjourneys, My men are mutinous fools... (Homer 146), but he controls his angerand continues on their journey back home. Odysseus, with such control, is thevery model of a leader and king. Control was very valuable in Greek society. Aperfect contrast to Odysseus's' control is the character Antinous. Antinous hasno control over his emotions or actions, as he leads the ban of suitors, beingthe most brash of the suitors. Look at the anger he displaces on Odysseus duringa dinner in which Odysseus is in disguise as a beggar: God what evil wind blew in this pest? Get over, stand in the passage! Nudgemy table, will you? Egyptian whips are sweet to what you'll come to here,you nosing rat, making your pitch to everyone! (Homer 325). The desire of Odysseus to returning home is that of pure dedication. Thisis easily seen throughout the text, by the rejections he sends to all who givehim gifts to stay. This dedication falls into the ideals of the Greek culture,and the belief behind community above all other ideals. Wealth, and power wouldbe nothing without the sense of community behind the individual. A careful lookinto the story of The Odyssey, points out Homer's feelings of when the sense ofcommunity can be abused with the presentation of the suitors. A statementspeaks of Odysseus's absolute desire to return home. When he nears Ithacas'shores which falls asleep from exhaustion, his men doom him by taking the giftfrom Aiolos, as mentioned previously in the text, the gloom and despair Odysseusconfesses to as the thought he whispers to himself, Roused up, despairing inthat gloom, I thought: 'Should I go overside for a quick finish or clench myteeth a...
