In both movies, the two heroes want to go home to see their wives, however; each man has his own reasoning for reaching this goal. .
Both men in these two versions wanted to see their wives and children again. However, Penny was not as excited about seeing Everett as Penelope was about seeing Odysseus again. In the movie The Odyssey, Penelope waits patiently for the day her husband will return from his wanderings. Day after day, Penelope is greeted by more suitors asking for her hand, but she refuses to marry because she loves Odysseus with all her heart. On the other hand, Penny feels no sorrow that her husband has been sent to the state penitentiary; instead she tells her daughters that there daddy was hit by a train and killed. Whenever Penny's hand was asked in marriage, she said yes with no feeling of remorse. Penny did not want to see her husband again because she did not feel he was "bona fide" enough for her. However, in each movie, the two women did take their husbands back, although each did with some reluctance. Penelope was afraid that Odysseus was not really himself, for she knew that the Gods could disguise themselves as any mortal. In order to know for sure, Penelope tests Odysseus by saying she was going to place his bed in the hall for him to sleep in. Even though Odysseus had been gone for so long, he still remembers the fact that their bed had been built around a living olive tree and could not be moved. By remembering this little simple fact, Penelope knew that this was really Odysseus her beloved husband and she took him back into her life. Penny, being the way she was, only decided to take Everett back whenever she found out that he was a member of the Soggy-Bottom Boys. The catch to her remarrying him was that she had to have the ring they were originally married with in order for them to become married again. In both cases, the two women were brought back together with their husbands, but it was not want each woman had always hoped and waited for.
