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The primary conflict in "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" exists between Ulysses Everett McGill, Delmar O'Donnell, and Pete Hogwallop. This conflict centers around Everett's insistence that they need to reach his home in the Soggy Bottom to recover a treasure before it's flooded by a new dam.
The conflict arises from Everett's silver-tongued persuasion. He convinces Delmar and Pete that he has buried $1.2 million from a bank robbery somewhere on his property and that they need to return immediately to retrieve it. He uses their shared desire for wealth and security to manipulate them. However, the promise is fundamentally a lie, since there is no treasure and Everett's real motive is to stop his ex-wife Penny from remarrying and potentially losing contact with his daughters. Pete and Delmar are initially motivated by the promise of wealth but become increasingly disillusioned as they encounter various absurd and dangerous situations on their journey. This disillusionment, coupled with Everett's domineering personality and tendency to lie, fuels the conflict between them.
The summary focuses entirely on the internal conflict between the trio, but the primary antagonist of the film is Sheriff Cooley, a relentless lawman who represents a 'devil' figure pursuing them.
The summary fails to mention that the characters start the film as members of a chain gang, which is why they are shackled together and in a rush to escape the law.
The film is a loose adaptation of Homer's 'The Odyssey,' which provides the structural context for the 'absurd situations' mentioned.
The summary mentions the remarrying but omits the name of the antagonist suitor, Vernon T. Waldrip.
In the film 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?' (2000), the primary conflict between the main characters—Ulysses Everett McGill, Pete Hogwallop, and Delmar O'Donnell—is rooted in a deception. The conflict begins when Everett convinces Pete and Delmar to escape from a Mississippi chain gang by claiming he has buried $1.2 million in treasure from an armored car robbery in a valley that is about to be flooded by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). In reality, the treasure is a lie; Everett's true motive is to return home to prevent his wife, Penny, from marrying Vernon T. Waldrip. The tension between the trio escalates as Pete and Delmar realize they have been misled, particularly because Pete had only a few days left on his original sentence. Beyond this internal conflict, the group faces a primary external conflict from the relentless pursuit of Sheriff Cooley (a Satanic figure) and various obstacles inspired by Homer's 'The Odyssey,' such as the Sirens and the Cyclops (Big Dan Teague).