In the first lines the writer describes the context in which Ulysses acts. Ulysses is different from the people he governs and for this reason Ulysses compares his people to a savage race.

Ulysses is old and he is living the last part of the life and he would experience it, and proving every emotion. He says that in his life proves different emotion, he enjoyed himself and suffers alone and with other persons, this is the consequence of a change of her role in his society.

Ulysses says that he is a name because people remembers him just for his name but this underlines the sense of isolation that Ulysses proves to live in his society.

Ulysses has the possibility to know different traditions and habits of the countries that he has visited, and these inhabitants are similar to him. Ulysses seems a stranger in his country.