Although many suitors pestered her and pressured her into marriage because they were sure that Odysseus was long gone. Since none of the suitors wanted to listen to Penelope, she devised a plan to keep the suitors at bay. He said to them: “Young men, my suitors, now that the great Ulysses is dead, wait, even if you are anxious to marry me, until I finish this cloth, so that my weaving may not be useless and wasted. This is a shroud for the hero Laertes, for when the destructive fate of death, which strikes down men, shall take him, that no Achaean woman in the vicinity shall reproach me that a man of many conquests lies without a sheet to shroud him. " ( ) She would weave a shroud for her father-in-law, Leartes, and then, once completed, announce who she would marry. At least that's what she told the suitors. Little did they know that Penelope wove the thread by day and unraveled it by night. She came up with this plan so she wouldn't have to marry anyone and could remain faithful to Odysseus Even after 20 years of waiting she still believed that Odysseus was coming