The Shroud

Main Event #2: Odysseus had to leave Penelope to
fight in the Trojan War. Over a hundred suitors
invaded the palace, telling Penelope that she had to
choose one of them to marry. She told the suitors
that she would not be able to choose one of them
until she finished weaving her father in law's shroud.
"All day I would work away at my loom, weaving diligently...But at night I would undo what I had accomplished, so the shroud never got any bigger."
(Atwood 113)