What I see in calypso's tale is that shy can’t be alone, not in a prostitute kind of way but like most humans feel. She needs someone to accompany her, so she offers them her sensuality and her services as well as her immortality. “Telemachus, has given us the adventures of the son of Ulysses in search of his father. Among other places at which he arrived, following on his father’s footsteps, was Calypso’s isle, and, as in the former case, the goddess tried every art to keep him with her, and offered to share her immortality with him.” [P3] Like most humans, she feels desperate to get attention and to be loved and that’s why see falls in love so fast. “Calypso received Ulysses hospitably, entertained him magnificently, became enamoured of him, and wished to retain him forever, conferring on him immortality. But he persisted in his resolution to return to his country and his wife and son.” [P1] Aswell I think that’s the reason she is a nymph and pleasures men’s needs, is because it shows her she is being “loved” and that she in being payed attention to.
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