O Brother Where Art Thou Short Story

Crackle, crackle, stomp. These are the sounds the men heard as they realized they were trapped in the monster’s lair. In the stories of Homer’s The Odyssey and that of the Coen Brothers’ O’ Brother, Where Art Thou, there are different depictions of one of the worlds most well known monsters, the Cyclops. The relations between a preacher and a horrible Cyclops may seem like a huge stretch. However, from their appearances, actions, and even animals; these two may have more in common than meets the eye. At the first sight of Big Dan in O’ Brother, Where Art Thou, from his one eye to his table full of food, all the way up until his death; he looks and follows through the same scenarios as The Odyssey’s character Polyphemus. When Big Dan is first

In both of the stories the sheep are herded back to their master during the night. In The Odyssey the sheep are brought back to their master inside the cave. O’ Brother, Where Art Thou, the sheep gather together with Big Dan for the KKK meeting. In every herd of white sheep there are always a couple special black sheep that hides something underneath. In both stories the characters escape from the cyclop’s lair by hiding under some of the sheep. Also in both stories the main character chooses the biggest sheep, with Odysseus choosing the largest ram and Everett choosing the color guard at the rally. Then in both of the stories the Cyclops follows the protagonist not on sight but on smell and sound. In The Odyssey the men on the boat cheer for Odysseus, and the Cyclops follows them based on that. In O’ Brother, Where Art Thou, Big Dan hears them mess up the chant and then smells them by sniffing the air. In the end, both monster had its own herd of sheep that followed them through everything blindly. These sheep, however both get used by the protagonist to escape past the monster without it noticing