Describing the hero in you as someone else- a somebody

After the suitors have retired for the night Ulysses and Telemachus go to retrieve the suitor’s arms as planned. Telemachus tells Eurycleia that they are storing the weapons to keep them from being damaged. Athena lights their way and room to allow them to work. Here wisdom of the domain and devices acts like a light allowing the two to work efficiently in the dark. After disposing of the weapons Telemachus goes to rest. Penelope befriends Ulysses still disguised to her as a beggar. She has come from the female quarters and wants to speak to the beggar who admits to having met her husband Ulysses. She tests the beggar by asking him to describe her husband. Ulysses then describes himself- the hero, in such a detailed and powerful fashion that it brings tears to Penelope. He tells her of how he met the hero and how he ended up in Ithaca. This tale is similar to the one he told Athena and Eumaeus in books 13-14 but differs. The emphasis on Ulysses as a hero who went through an ordeal, survived triumphantly and roams the seas freely is imparted. He predicts Ulysses return to Ithaca within a month. His description of himself portrays his vision of the paradigm he has come to embody. An idea that is greater than him though for many inseparable. Yet this description of the hero is separated from the person and represents the paradigm causing the exemplar shift in Greece. It is moving and tear jerking. Moreover his description of the ordeals and freedom Ulysses has promotes the image of the faithful hero on his way home and the power this figure has to survive and be loved as the paradigm he has come to represent. As Jean-Paul Sartre has noted it is not till one tries to examine oneself by separating the self one has come to know oneself as that allows one to truly see the self as it is, thus it is not till Ulysses tries to describe himself as a hero to Penelope that he describes what he knows he has come to be and represent to himself and all of Greece.
Till next week peace