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Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle Stop Café"HER true NAME was Patricia Neal"(Reynolds1), but the author of Fried Green Tomatoes is burst known under the alias Fannie Flagg. In the novel Fried Green Tomatoes she uniquely compares the ripe day world to the world in the early and the middle 1900s. As the novel shifts from the 1930s to the 1980s the significance of life is seen through two of the main(prenominal) characters, Mrs. Cleo Thread beste and Evelyn Couch, as life ends and begins. Fannie Flagg shows that living life to its fullest indeed has its consequences, but is the only way to live a happy life without regrets.From her start in the late 1920s Mrs. Cleo Threadgoode knew a little girl by the heel of Imogene but everyone called her Idgie. Idgie was one of the Threadgoodes and back in Whistle Stop the name Threadgoode was a good name to have. They were the basic life of this little town in Alabama. The Threadgoodes were people known and well liked by the rest of the sparsely populated area. The name she carried did not stop Idgie from doing whatever she wanted to do whenever she wanted to do it. "Idgie used to do all kinds of harebrained things just to get you to laugh. She put salamander chips in the collection basket at the Baptist church once. She was a character all right"(12). This shows that nothing would stop Idgie from doing her pranks and having her laughs.  Maybe she was lectured by her priest or by her parents but she didnt regret it. Idgie was concerned with the present, not the past or the future. Of course she had her hardship thatwouldnt let her forget, like when her brother crony died, and she even looked forward to a day, but she lived in the present. She lived life for the moment. "Now, seriously, Idgie, Im not trying to run your business or anything, but I just want to know if youre saving any money, thats all. What for? Idgie said. Listen, money go forth kill you, you know that"(31). This s hows that Idgie was not concerned with what tomorrow will bring and if she is prepared for it or not. It also shows that Idgie is not concerned with wealth, she is more concerned about the well being of others. This next passage gives a better impression of her pure unselfish heart.