The Penelopiad is narrated by two characters, Penelope and the maids. Whenever the maids tell their perspective of the story, they are referred to as the chorus line. This title symbolizes their tragic fate. A chorus is a collective group of people, they are known as a whole not individually (i.e. the maids, not “personal name”). The ‘line” creates an image of how the maids were killed, hanged in a line. The chorus narrates the story in the form of poetry or music. Margaret Atwood does this to highlight the innocence of the maids. When the maids were executed, they were only children. Children tend to favor happy rhymes over long explanations. For example, the chorus’s first chapter is called “A Rope-Jumping Rhyme”. Rope-jumping is an activity