Analysis Of Fried Green Tomatoes

Readers want to see themselves in the stories they read. They want to feel a sense of escape from life’s struggles by reading, and also a sense of solidarity with the characters and real-life people who share their positive traits. These positive traits that readers want abound in Fried Green Tomatoes, from characters of all sorts and creeds, so why a sex scene became so necessary for many critics is baffling. Ruth, Idgie, Evelyn and other characters in the text seek love, acceptance, and to understand themselves in all the ways that those things happen between people, including but not limited, to a healthy relationship with sexuality. Hypothetically speaking, what if Ruth and Idgie’s relationship was celibate, if they were real people that

By knowing Stephen’s thoughts, readers also know definitively that in some ways, Stephen feels like a man and wishes she was one, such as when she asks her father if he thinks she could become a man if she prays hard enough (19). Thus, some readers will consider the possibility that Stephen is in some ways more than a cisgender (a person who identifies with the gender they were assigned at birth, or whose sex and gender match) lesbian woman; in today’s terminology she might be transgender, non-binary (not a part of the gender binary of male or female), or even genderfluid (going back and forth between male and female or other genders). Stephen subverts of gender norms, as in some ways she also subverts what many think of as a lesbian character. Her feelings and society’s norms at the time lead her to think that because she is attracted to women, perhaps she was meant to be a man (because attraction to women is an attribute innate to men). For readers today almost ninety years later, seeing a character like Stephen who shares so many of the same feelings, reservations, worries, and even self-doubt about love and identity reminds us that people of the