“Anything worth dying for...is worth living for.” Joseph Heller, Catch-22. Loyalty and perseverance are two main themes that go hand in hand throughout the Odyssey by Homer, and O Brother Where Art Thou? by Joel and Ethan Coen, as well as Odysseus’ and Everett McGill’s personality traits and their purposes for the journeys they endured. The most noteworthy similarities are those between the main characters, and the ongoing external and internal conflicts found between god and man, man and man, or man versus himself. Along the line of themes, different objects or events in both stories symbolize something greater than what is first perceived. The Odyssey and O Brother… have many similarities in the themes, characters, conflicts, lyrical elements,
