In Book Three of
The Odyssey
, examines the relationship between a subplot and the main plot. What parallels do you see between the story King Nestor tells about Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, and Orestes and the current dilemma faced by Odysseus, Penelope, and Telemachus? Why does Nestor tell the story? Of what use is this information to Telemachus? What, if anything, does it signal to the reader?
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