Literary Significance

Literary Significance: "The two of us were-by our
own admission-proficient and shameless liars of long
standing. It's a wonder either one of us believed a
word the other said. But we did."(Atwood 173)
The overarching theme of deceptiveness and trickery appears once again, between Penelope and Odysseus.
Such close relationships usually consists solely of truths, however, between Penelope and Odysseus, they both understand each others expertise in lying, but ironically choose to