"The Cattle of the Sun
God"
CONFLICT: Odysseus men ate the Sun God's cattle because they
were hungry. Thus, they pitted themselves in a conflict with Lord Helios in a man vs. god
conflict.
RESOLUTION: As soon as they were out to sea for a while,
he ensured a storm broke them up completely and drowned them all except for Odysseus who did not
eat his cattle. Odysseus survives and goes to live with Calypso on
Ogygia.
"The Land of the
Dead"
CONFLICT: Odysseus cannot go home unless he consults Tiresias
the blind prophet. He is in turmoil with the gods and it will not solve itself unless he learns
that which he must do. When in the Land of the Men of Winter, he discovers that both his mother
and his soldier Elpenor died without his knowledge. Thus, he has an inner conflict about not
having been there for either incident.
RESOLUTION: Tiresias gives
Odysseus tasks he can do when he arrives back in Ithaca. One of the demands Tiresias places on
him is to kill all the men who have been feasting on his livestock and courting his wife. The
other great demand is to go far inland to erect a monument for Poseidon.
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