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Fried Green Tomatoes Character Analysis

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Evelyn Couch is a character in the film “Fried Green Tomatoes”. She is blind to the beauty of life, until she meets Ninny Threadgoode, an 80-year-old with a child’s heart. Ninny teaches Evelyn to look beyond life’s outer ugliness to its inner beauty. She tells her the story of Idgia Threadgoode, a young woman who looked beyond the outer prejudices of the Deep South and saw inner visions of exciting new possibilities.
That story, especially, helped Evelyn to see herself and life around her in a whole new way.
The stories of Ninny invite me to ask: what do I need to be healed?
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment someone sees in it the exciting vision of a cathedral (

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