What is the importance of the "wind" in the book, The Women of Troy: A Novel?

The wind that keeps the Greeks on the Trojan beach throughout the novel symbolizes control. The characters all attribute the perpetual winds to the gods' wrath. The wind illustrates the humans' lack of control over the natural world. Though they are capable of dominating, violating, and oppressing one another, they cannot conquer nature. The wind, therefore, grants perspective on the characters' conflicts.