![]() ![]() In the setting of the cafe, which Idgie owns, she practices her own actions of morality while defying societal gender, economic, romantic, and racial norms of her time, drawing to it people of all walks of life. Idgie is unconventionally outspoken and strong-willed for a woman, and the vicarious memory of her that Ninny has instilled in Evelyn causes Evelyn to make a change in her currently dispirited way of life. Threadgoode focuses her recounts on one member of the town in particular, her sister-in-law, Idgie Threadgoode. ![]() From here, Flagg incorporates the second story line of the early 1900s, that of the late town of Whistle Stop that Evelyn, along with readers, will soon grow to love. Threadgoode is a good-hearted woman who speaks her mind openly, and often reminisces over her home-town, Whistle Stop, Alabama. When she accompanies her husband to the Rose Terrace Nursing Home in which her mother-in-law is residing, she meets another inhabitant of the home, Ninny Threadgoode. The first, that of one of the novel’s protagonists, Evelyn Couch, a 48-year old woman of the 1980s facing a menopausal era of mid-life crisis. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is a historical fiction novel that immerses readers into two plot lines at once. ![]()
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