When Odysseus reached home he did not realize he was in for an unpleasant surprise. In part two of The Odyssey, Odysseus was coming home to the town of Ithaca hoping for joy and triumph in his return. However that is not what Odysseus received from everyone in the town. Odysseus had been gone for twenty years only to come home and find many suitors had overrun his home. Odysseus had many reasons to kill the suitors such as the following: they were asking for his wife's had in marriage, they were eating his food, and they were planning to ambush Telemachus; Odysseus’s son. Odysseus loved his wife and the suitors were asking for her hand in marriage. First, one of the reasons Odysseus was trying to find a way home was his beloved wife,
