Overview
1-Page Summary of Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle Stop Cafe Overall Summary. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is a 1987 novel by American author and actress Fanny Flagg. The narrative contains two interconnected stories that unfold several decades apart.
Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is the now-classic novel of two women in the 1980s; of gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode telling her life story to Evelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age. The tale she tells is also of two women--of the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth--who back in the thirties ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama, a Southern kind of Cafe Wobegon offering good barbecue and good coffee and all kinds of love and laughter, even an occasional murder. And as the past unfolds, the present--for Evelyn and for us--will never be quite the same again... 'Airplanes and television have removed the Threadgoodes from the Southern scene. Happily for us, Fannie Flagg has preserved a whole community of them in a richly comic, poignant narrative that records the exuberance of their lives, the sadness of their departure. Idgie Threadgoode is a true original: Huckleberry Finn would have tried to marry her!' --Harper Lee, Author of To Kill a Mockingbird 'A real novel and a good one... [from] the busy brain of a born storyteller.' --The New York Times 'It's very good, in fact, just wonderful.' --Los Angeles Times 'Funny and macabre.' --The Washington Post 'Courageous and wise.' --Houston Chronicle
Who Was Ninny Threadgood In Fried Green Tomatoes
Are Ninny Threadgoode And Idgie The Same Person
Based on Fanny Flagg's novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, the film is a story within a story of Southern female friendship and love. The movie opens when Evelyn Couch, an unhappy housewife, meets tip with Ninny Threadgoode, a resident of a nursing home. Different scenes from the film 'Fried Green Tomatoes', with Jessica Tandy as Ninny Threadgoode, Kathy Bates as Evelyn Couch, Mary-Louise Parker as Ruth Jamison and Mary Stuart Masterson as Imogene 'Idgie' Threadgoode, 1991. Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is the now-classic novel of two women in the 1980s; of gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode telling her life story to Evelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age. The tale she tells is also of two women-of the.