Fourth Assignment, per 5.

The wedding bed. It symbolizes there marriage, but it is a marriage that Penelope didnt want. And although she doesnt love odysseus she is doing what her father wants of her. She is keeping her duty to her father because her father arranged for her to marry him. it symbolizes their marriage, the first night they are together before odysseus has to go to troy, only one servant has seen their bed which is kinda a way that says she doesnt want a lot of people knowing about their marriage.