First of all, congratulations on reading The Odyssey in
the 9th grade! That's a wonderful achievement!
To answer
your question, Odysseus is just like most humans: taking credit for the good times and
blaming God for the bad. Why do we do this? I think that humans reach out to religion
when times get hard, but when life is easy God often takes a backseat because people
don't think they still need guidance.
Homer shows Odysseus
as being flawed, yet who among us is not? That's the beauty of literature: it exposes
the honesty of humanity; and it reveals to us, through characters, our own
setbacks.
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