What is the effect of the epic smile in lines 118-131 of the excerpt from the Odyssey, Part 2

Sometimes in farmyards when a cow return well-fed from the pasture to the barn, one sees the pens give way before the calves in the tumult, breaking through to cluster about the mother's, bumping together bawling

From the Odyssey, Part 2 [lines 122-126]
a. to criticize the lack of loyalty of Odysseus's men
b. to reveal Odysseus's hurry to go back and free his men
c. to show how thoroughly Odysseus's men depended on him

c. to show how thoroughly Odysseus's men depended on him