In "The Odyssey," by Homer, tells the story of Odysseus, king of Ithaca and hero of the Trojan War, as he tries to return to Ithaca. Odysseus’s faces numerous obstacles on his journey home from Calypso's Island to the Cyclops to Poseidon, God of the sea. While back in Ithaca, his wife, Penelope, and family gets swarmed by hundreds of suitors. For this reason, Odysseus and his son, Telemachus, must kill the suitors and take back their home. Throughout Odysseus’s journey, Homer demonstrates that to achieve success, one must face and overcome many obstacles and that we all have our own odyssey to conquer. A major event Odysseus’s had with Polyphemus, a Cyclops which also is Poseidon’s son, demonstrates the consequences for being arrogant. When Odysseus and his crew arrive at the island, they happen to find an abandoned cave.  Odysseus’s crew wants to just quickly loot the cave and leave, but Odysseus declines it, and he says, “How sound that was! Yet I refused. I wished to see the caveman, what he had to offer-no pretty sight, it turned out, for my friends (Homer 151).” Even though Odysseus’s men tell him to leave and make the right decision, Odysseus hastily wishes to stay so he can maybe receive a gift from Polypehemus. This really shows his own selfish desires, not only is he risking his friends’ lives for doing this, but so he can boost about it. Odysseus only listens to himself, because of this arrogant mindset, he believes that his ideals matter the most. This plan backfires when the Cyclops traps them in the cave and ends up eating some of his men. This teaches Odysseus to be more humble, because one cannot succeed without putting others before one’s self. As Odysseus and his crew is escaping, the problem is multiplied when Odysseus exclaims, “Cyclops, if ever mortal man inquire how you were put to shame and blinded, tell him, Odysseus, raider of cities, took your eye: Laertes’ son, whose home’s on It