No it’s not, if you read it aloud it doesn’t make sense !!!
The lines from the passage that best show that Penelope is clever are the following:
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Penelope does not want to marry any of the suitors. She is buying time by spinning and unspinning her burial shroud.
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Reached their hearts that way, and they agreed.
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So every day I wove on the great loom, </span><span>but every night by torchlight I unwove it;</span><span>
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He's trying to explain what exactly motivated him, particularly in the second paragraph. It was none of the things that would motivate someone to commit murder. Gain of any kind was out of the question. Feelings were not the motive. Nothing the old man had motivated him.
It was just his eye. So he's in a battle with himself. (That's the first answer).
We are leading up to something and we need to have a background. This is not the climax or the resolution. It is not the falling action -- just the opposite. It is the build up towards the climax.
So the only thing it can be is the exposition which is the second answer.
