I believe that Odysseus portrays the characteristics of the Orphan most on the island of Calypso. He had been lost on her island and had been with her for seven years because she was an immortal and he was afraid of being on her bad side. Although she treated him well and gave him food, clothes, and companionship, all he wanted to do was to get back home to Ithaca and his wife Penelope. “Calypso went out to look for Odysseus, for she had heard Zeus’ message. She found him sitting upon the beach with his eyes ever filled with tears, his sweet life wasting away as he mourned his nostos; for he had got tired of Calypso, and though he was forced to sleep with her in the cave by night, it was she, not he, that would have it so. As for the daytime, he spent it on the rocks and on the sea-shore, weeping, crying aloud for his despair, and always looking out upon the sea.”
Although he is resilient and loyal to Calypso, he displays that he is in touch with reality causing him to have the victim’s mentality and shows that he has low expectations of ever returning home.
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