Fried Green Tomatoes

Title: Fried Green Tomatoes
Category: Literature / Novels | Words: 1643 | Pages: 7.0 (approximately 235 words/page)

Fried Green Tomatoes

My first impression of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café was that it was a “woman’s” novel. This was because the movie, which was more popular than the book, was advertised as a “chick flick”. To say the least, I was wrong. The novel poses many issues that face the people of the 1920’s and 30’s, and makes one think about what people have struggled through. The novel addresses the issue of …showed first 75 words of 1643 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 1643 total…She acts like a guy and they think of her as “one of the guys”. It is why they do not see Idgie and Ruth’s relationship as something that is so wrong. It is like Ruth is the woman and Idgie is the man in the relationship. Lesbianism is just one of the many issues that this book addresses and it is definitely the one aspect that makes the book so interesting and entertaining.

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