Penelope Vs Penny

Authors and directors have very different ideas on the way a character should be portrayed. We are shown this in both the movie “Oh Brother Where Art Thou” and the book “Odyssey”. Though their stories of struggles are similar, they overcome them in different ways. Penelope and Penny are both portrayed the same and have similarities, but there are differences between the two as well that make them different and unique, and that also ties them together in the end.
Penny and Penelope both remain confident throughout their stories. Penny divorces her husband Everett, after he is put in jail. With a need to support her and her family, she seeks out to find a new husband, who has better qualities than Everett; one who she says has to be “bona-fide”. Penny knows what’s best, so she finds herself “a suitor” who is up to her standards and is formally engaged to her fiancé, Vernon Wharvey. Penelope is left with a baby boy to take care of while her husband Odysseus is away for 20 years trying to find his way home after the Trojan War. Penelope has her house invaded by a group of 100 plus suitors, with one whom she has to marry, so that there will be a new king to look after Ithika. She still feels for her husband and doesn’t want to marry any of these suitors. She wants him to come home but has a feeling he is dead. According to Penelope the suitors are nothing but a bunch of greedy pigs, and she wants out of her home. One day she has enough of the suitors and says “...and you, if you have any shame in your own hearts, you must leave my palace! See to your feasting elsewhere; devour your own possessions, house to house by turns. But if you decide the fare is better, richer here, destroying one man’s goods and going scot-free, all right then, carve away” (Book 2 lines 156-160). The both of these women know what they want and if it’s best they’ll strive to get it. Penelope remained faithful to Odysseus for 20 years and does not want to marry anybody else. She pushes the