In analyzing this passage I really see Agamemnon holding on to his pride. So tight it is insulting, whether its due to self-consciousness or worry, it is over dramatic. It seems as if he thinks his wife is being too generous toward him that it makes him feel unworthy and incapable of doing stuff on his own, “ You treat me like a woman. Groveling, gaping up at me!” He acts as if he is unworthy, “There is no need to sound my reputation. I have a sense of right and wrong, what's more—heaven's proudest gift,” and scared what the gods may think if he accepts these actions his wife is doing to him. The larger work of this passage includes Clytemnestra murdering her husband and not denying her actions. That she takes responsibility for it and it