In both stories the hero meets very similar people such as a lover, a loyal friend and a villain. In Hudsucker Proxy, Norville's version of the lover character is Amy Archer. Amy is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the Manhattan Argus who is assigned to write a story about Norville, so she gets a job at Hudsucker Industries as his personal secretary to interact with him on a daily basis (Hudsucker Proxy). Amy is very similar to Penelope from The Odyssey. Penelope is the wife of Ulysses, who spends her days in the palace waiting for her husband who left for Troy twenty years earlier and never returned (The Odyssey). The characters are similar in the context of their undying love for the hero and have hope in the hero even when the hero was on a journey full of struggles. Norville's loyal friend character in Hudsucker Proxy is Moses. Moses is the man who operates the tower's giant clock and is very knowledgeable about the events taking place at Hudsucker Industries (Hudsucker Proxy). Moses is very similar to Eumaeus from the Odyssey. Eumaeus is the faithful shepherd who helps Odysseus regain his throne after his return to Ithaca (The Odyssey). The characters are similar in the context of their faith in the hero even when the hero himself lacked faith in himself. In Hudsucker Proxy, the role of the villain is played by Sidney Mussburger. Sidney Mussburger is a ruthless board member who learns that the company's stock will soon be sold to the public, so he hatches a plan to buy controlling interest in the company by temporarily lowering the stock price due to an incompetent. president (Hudsucker Proxy). Mussburger is very similar to the suitors in the Odyssey. The Suitors are 108 men from all over Greece who come to try to woo and marry Queen Penelope, but she