So I'm writing an analytical essay on The Odyssey, about Odysseus.

And I have to pick traits about him and use multiple quotes to support what I say.
So I have a paragraph which I am trying to describe his homesickness.
Would a quotation about how he yearned to hug his dead mom's ghost after not seeing her for years count as homesickness?

Yes ... that, and missing his wife and not seeing his son since he was a baby.