Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café"HER ORIGINAL NAME was Patricia Neal"(Reynolds1), but the author of Fried Green Tomatoes is better known by her pen name: Fannie Flagg. In the novel Fried Green Tomatoes he 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 meaning of life is seen through two of the main characters, the Mrs. Cleo Threadgoode and Evelyn Couch, as life ends and begins. Fannie Flagg proves that living life to the fullest does indeed have its consequences, but it is the only way to live a happy life without regrets. From her inception in the late 1920s, Mrs. Cleo Threadgoode knew a little girl named Imogene but everyone called her her Idgie. Idgie was one of the Threadgoodes and in the days of Whistle Stop the name Threadgoode was a good name to have. They were the basic life of this small Alabama town. The Threadgoods were people known and well-liked by the rest of the sparsely populated area. The name he bore didn't stop Idgie from doing whatever he wanted whenever he wanted. "Idgie did all kinds of wacky things just to make you laugh. He once put poker chips in the collection bin at the Baptist church. He was quite a character..." (12). This proves that nothing would stop Idgie from playing his pranks and having some laughs. Maybe she received lessons from her priest or her parents, but she did not regret it. Idgie was worried about the present, not the past or the future. Of course she had her struggles that didn't allow her to forget, like when her brother Buddy died, and she couldn't wait for that day, but she lived in the present. He lived life for the moment. "Now, seriously, Idgie, I'm not trying to run your business or anything like that, but I just want to know if you're saving money, that's all. For what? said Idgie. Look, money will kill you, you." know this" (31). This shows that Idgie did not care about what tomorrow would bring and whether she was prepared or not. It also shows that Idgie does not care about wealth, she is more concerned about the well-being of others. The next passage gives a better impression of his pure and selfless heart.