I decided to analyze one of the earlier scenes from "O Brother Where Art Thou", when the gang of three come to Pete's cousins farm. One of the defining moments is when they are eating supper and it starts out with a vertical shot of the sons legs to him eating and Wash Hogwallop is discussing his hardships since the two cousins (Pete and Wash) had seen each other last. What Wash says is a very good indicator of what happens in the following scenes, he spoke of cows dieing off and neighbors killing themselves, on top of all of that his wife had left him, and "RUNOFFT". So Wash is in a poor financial and family situation, so after feeding the men and taking the chains off and giving them a place to sleep, Wash turns his own kin into the authorities. Pete was in disbelief of what he had done. Going back to the analyzing the dinner scene, the lighting and color of the picture gives a very accurate description to how Wash says they are living. He even confesses to slaughtering a horse over a week ago and how he thinks that it is starting to go bad. The books that his son has to sit on just to reach the dinner table show they are not able to buy a chair that his son could sit in comfortably without stacking books on top. For me this scene does a great job of sticking with the whole theme of a depression age and especially in the south. (referring back to how Wash spells run off phonetically. 

Apart from the specific scene at the dinner table, the rest of the film keeps true to the depression era as well as the southern aspect. For example when Everett and Delmar encounter Big Dan Teague, the bible salesman. Big Dan banks on the fact the two men being in the south especially at the time would be religious folk. Another aspect of the film that works really well is somewhat subtle but the dapper Dan pomade that Everett is so focused on seems to be a reoccurring item in the film and the product is a symbol of who Everett is, a man who is very concerned with his hair and the style that he wears it and I identify the two together.