O Brother Where Art Thou Character Analysis

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“O Brother, Where Art Thou?” is a movie made by the Cohen Brothers that is based on Homer's “Odyssey.” These two stories contains multiple similarities and plenty of differences. Both stories also follows framework of Campbell’s “Hero’s Journey.” One of the main protagonist of “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” is named Ulysses Everett McGill, Ulysses is Roman for Odysseus. He is trying to get to his wife before she is remarried to a suitor, just like Odysseus. Everett’s wife is named Penny which corresponds with Penelope, Odysseus’s wife. The difference is that Penny wants to marry someone else instead of Everett and Penelope didn’t want to remarry. There is a character in the movie named Daniel "Big Dan" Teague and he corresponds with the cyclop,

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