As with any author's decision to use 1st person, her intention most likely -- in this story -- was to get her readers to go along for the ride into madness and cultivate a certain amount of sympathy for the narrator and her plight. The constant use of "I" puts readers in the narrator’s head and allows them to empathize with her.
Odysseus takes back his home and wife by sneaking up the on the sailors and killing them. He doesn’t appreciate that his house has been run over and that random men are trying to marry his wife but she also has a plan herself. She tells the sailors that she will marry one of them when she finishes her rig so every night she unravels it so she starts over until Odysseus comes back. He fights the sailors off and they die.
They both weigh the same. A pound of feathers vs. a pound of rocks. A pound is a pound, and whether it is a pound of feathers or a pound of rocks, it doesn't matter. As a matter of fact, they both weigh one pound
Answer:
Infinitives as adjectives examples
Adjectives and participial adjectives followed by infinitives
amazed * delighted lucky
anxious determined motivated
ashamed eager pleased
astonished * fortunate prepared
careful glad proud
