She hears a knock at her bedroom door, and goes to answer it.

Penelope was a strong, brave woman. She waited for her husband for twenty years. She also showed people that she was brave by being faithful and trying her best to things. Penelope is a also thinker, a person who is effective in facing her world and its problems by thinking her way out of them. She is, perhaps, even more of a thinker than her much-devising husband, as he is still, occasionally, given to “solving” his problems with brute force. She's seen as the epitome of faithful wifeliness for her refusal to marry a suitor and for her belief that Odysseus will return.