Emotional Encounter In Odysseus In Homer's Odyssey

I think that Odysseus’s most emotional encounter was with the ghost of his dead mother. This is the most emotional encounter for Odysseus because his mother tells stories of how her and his father missed Odysseus. She explains that his father was a poor farmer who slept with slaves and had no bed and bad clothes. She tells him that he sits on a vineyards slope during fall and winter lying in sorrow. She tells Odysseus that he died of grief “longing for your return” (11.197). She tells Odysseus that this is also how she died. This is very emotional because both of his parents were so worried about their son that they died of grief, wondering why he was and if he would return. His mom says that she did not die from an illness, she died