Fried Green Tomatoes at Whistle Stop Café “HER ORIGINAL NAME was Patricia Neal” (Reynolds1), but the author of Fried Green Tomatoes is better known under the pseudonym: Fannie Flagg. In the novel Fried Green Tomatoes, she uniquely compares the modern world to the world of the early and mid-1900s. As the novel moves from the 1930s to the 1980s, the importance of life is seen through two of the main characters, Mrs. Cleo Threadgoode and Evelyn Couch, as life ends and begins. Fannie Flagg shows that living life to the fullest certainly has its consequences, but it is the only way to live a happy life without regrets. Since her early days in the late 1920s, Mrs. Cleo Threadgoode knew a little girl named Imogene but everyone called her their Idgie. Idgie was one of the Threadgoodes and at Whistle Stop the name Threadgoode was a good name to have. They were the fundamental life of this small Alabama town. The Threadgoodes were well-known and well-liked people throughout the rest of the sparsely populated region. The name she had didn't stop Idgie from doing what she wanted when she wanted. "Idgie would do all sorts of wacky things just to make you laugh. She once put poker chips in the Baptist church collection basket. She was quite a character, wasn't she... "(12). This shows that nothing would stop Idgie from doing her pranks and laughing. Maybe she was lectured by her priest or her parents but she didn't regret it. Idgie cared about the present, not the past or the future. Sure, she had struggles she couldn't forget, like the death of her brother Buddy, and she even looked forward to that day, but she lived in the present. She lived her life for the moment. "Now, seriously, Idgie, I'm not trying to run your business or anything, but I just want to know if you're saving money, that's all. For what? said Idgie. Listen, l 'Money will kill you, I know it' (31). This shows that Idgie didn't care what tomorrow would bring her and whether she was prepared for it or not. This also shows that Idgie doesn't care about wealth, she cares more about the well-being of others. This next passage gives a better impression of his pure and selfless heart..