Odysseus as Everyman in Homer's Odyssey

Odysseus symbolizes every person in the fact that he is so human, filled with faults, strengths and a real life. Odysseus has a family, a son and a wife, a mother and father, whom he leaves when he goes off to fight in the Trojan War. He feels grief and home-sickness while he's away and yearns to return home to his loved ones. While he stranded in the ocean and on islands, he feels pain …

…risks his life again to regain his home and save his wife and son from the torture that was involved with the suitors eating them out of house and home. Odysseus is unlike many heroes who seem invincible. They have no life, no feelings, no weaknesses. Odysseus feels pain, frustration and grief but at the same time his has his family and friends and those relationships and emotions are what makes him like every person.