Circe still clings onto hope that Glaucos will marry her, which demonstrates how she is still relying on other people to make her happy. Instead of planning a way to independently leave her miserable home situation, she puts her effort into literally transforming someone else in the hopes that he will get her out of Helios’s halls by way of marriage. In this way, Circe is also still playing by the rules of the misogynist society in which she lives, which dictate that she, as a woman, has little control over her own life and must wait for a powerful man to help her. But trying to achieve the change she wants by appealing to someone else isn’t very effective. She can’t control Glaucos’s thoughts, so her transformation of him brings about none of the change she was longing for. In fact, her transformation of Glaucos has stripped away many of the things that she loved about him in the first place. He is as cruel as a god: drunk with power, he kills his father and withholds help from his former village. No longer feeling weak and oppressed by others, he has lost his empathy that he had as a mortal. His transformation from mortal to god is what causes the transformation in his moral character, which suggests that immortality breeds callousness and cruelty.