Odysseus and jealousy
At the beginning of this part of the play, Odysseus' men show a great example of jealousy and how being bitter can really come back to hurt you. Odysseus's men saw the rewards that Odysseus was given, and how they didn't get a reward for doing the same thing. Being jealous, they took the bag of wind that great Aeolus gave him to get back to Ithica. They didn't understand that the bag was full of air and opened it to pack it full of gold. The wind came flushing out of the bag and pushed the ship away from Ithica, which was in view, all the way back to where they began their journey. Aeolus didn't want to give them another bag because their greed doomed them, instead, he demanded they leave his island and never return. They spent a very long time traveling towards home and ran into several challenges.Â