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This passage follows Patroclus’s first conversation with Thetis. During this conversation, she tells him that Achilles will be a god someday without leaving room for him to question that assertion. Readers only learn in this passage that she can’t be certain of Achilles’s future, and that if he’s going to become a god, it’ll be the result of a major effort.
Patroclus is immediately frightened of Thetis, and her role in the novel predisposes readers to dislike her, too: she’s cruel to Patroclus and constantly tries to separate him from Achilles, believing that their relationship dishonors her son. But in…