the Odyessey: Penelope weaving and unweaving the shroud?

The suitors do not make her less lonely. She is angry with them for taking over her husband's home, but as she is a woman she can do little about it. Everyone thinks that Odysseus is dead and this is why they are there to be the first to take over. Her son Telemachus doesn't like it either but he is young and can do little about it himself. This is one of the reasons the goddess takes him away to prepare him for his father's return and to give him the strength to fight alongside him. Penelope offered to weave this tapestry to give to the victor of the suitors. She told them that as soon as it was finished she would make her decision about which of them was to be her next husband. The reason she unravels it at night is to put off the inevitable day when she must make a choice and finally acknowledge that her husband is dead.