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 under the alias: Fannie Flagg. In the novel Fried Green Tomatoes she uniquely compares the modern day world to the world in the early and the middle 1900’s. As the novel shifts from the 1930’s to the 1980’s the significance of life is seen through two of the main characters, …showed first 75 words of 1567 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1567 total…She didn’t live her life to the fullest and regretted it until the day she died. Through these three people and their decisions and experiences it can be seen that happiness can not be experienced by living life the way someone else wants to live it. Living life with the expectations of anyone but oneself will lead not to happiness but to regret. Living life to its fullest brings happiness and is determined individually.