Even though many suitors harassed her and pushed her to marry because they were sure that Odysseus was long gone. Because none of the suitors wanted to listen to Penelope, she devised a plan to keep the suitors at bay. she said to them: “Young men, my suitors, now that the great Odysseus has perished, wait, although you are eager to marry me, until I finish this web, so that my weaving will not be useless and useless. It is a shroud for the hero Laertes, for when the destructive fate of death, which overthrows men, prevails, lest any Achaean woman in the vicinity reproach me that a man of many conquests lies without a sheet to roll it up. » ( ) She wove a shroud for her father-in-law, Leartes, then, once the work was finished, she announced who she would marry. At least that's what she told the suitors. They did not know that Penelope wove the thread during the day and untangled it at night. She came up with this plan so she wouldn't have to marry anyone and could stay faithful to Odysseus. Even after 20 years of waiting, she still believed that Ulysses was coming.