 In accordance with traditional customs of mourning, Andromache responds with an immediate and impulsive outburst of grief ("goos") that begins the ritual lamentation.She casts away her various pieces of headdress (22.468-72) and leads the Trojan women in ritual mourning, both of which they did (22.405-36).Although Andromache adheres to the formal practice of female lamentation in Homeric epic, the raw emotion of her discovery yields a miserable beginning to a new era in her life without her husband and, ultimately, without a home.