Ulysses Everett Mcgill from “O brother where art thou” is a man of taking action and stepping up where Odysseus from “The Odyssey” is a man of morality where he distinctively knows right from wrong. At times one can be brave and more courageous than the other or more honest and grounded. Their personalities are not necessarily the same, but their goals and leadership makes them very similar. All of the similar attributes of one another make them both great leaders and similar candidates from both storylines. Ulysses Everett Mcgill and Odysseus have a small number of differences, but when you look at their family and leadership skills, there are more connections between the two life stories being told.
Odysseus’s men never seem to follow exact orders on their travels and most of them wind up dead. During their Journey through the Island of the Cyclops, Odysseus tells his men not to eat the cattle. His men decided to purposefully disobey him and got themselves killed by the Cyclopes. Ulysses Everett's travel companions, Delmar O'Donnell and Pete Hogwallop, never seemed to follow orders either. There were women at the river singing, just like the Sirens, and it lured Ulysses’s men into the river even when Ulysses advised against it and told them not to.…show more content… With Odysseus, his reasons for returning home were different, but his goal was to get his wife back when he finds out she has suitors staying in his home. When Odysseus returns home, he finds suitors in his home, eating his food, and sleeping in his beds. Odysseus decides he is going to disguise himself as a beggar and “take back what’s his”. Odysseus and Everett both believe a woman is nothing without a man by her side and consider them inferior without a man by their side to protect
