Evelyn is a middle-aged woman going through menopause, and she is unhappy with her life. With that out of the way, I can say that although I thought Ruth and Idgie were the heart of the book, they aren’t really the main characters. They raise a child together, whom people often refer to as their child, with Ruth and Idgie as a unit. Ruth notes the moment she began to love Idgie, and they share their famous “bee charmer” moment. Idigie’s mother addresses her siblings with “Your sister has a crush, and I don’t want anyone to laugh at her.” Idgie is blatantly described as being “in love,” so I don’t know how that counts as subtext, except that they don’t have sex on page. There is even a fade-to-black sex scene with Idgie and another woman. To try to untangle my thoughts, I’ll go through these one by one.įirst, the queer “subtext.” When Ruth and Idgie first meet, Idgie is 15/16 and Ruth is 21(!) Idgie is immediately smitten with her, and everyone knows it. On the other hand, I was troubled by its depiction of race. I am also surprised that I heard about this as having lesbian subtext, when it’s really quite blatant. It has a lot of interesting things going on. On an immediate, personal level, I enjoyed reading it.
It’s one I’ve been meaning to read for a long time, and now that I have… I’m divided. Fried Green Tomatoesis a classic lesbian book.
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