Threadgoode is talkative and opinionated, speaking frankly about her own experiences of sex, marriage, and children while also boosting Evelyn’s self-esteem. Women’s lib came too late for me…I was already married with two children when I found out that I didn’t have to get married And now it’s too late to change…I feel like life has just passed me by” (67).Įvelyn’s life begins to change when she meets Ninny Threadgoode while visiting her mother-in-law at a nursing home. She says, “I just feel stuck…stuck right in the middle. She is traumatized by her mother’s death from cancer, estranged from her husband Ed, and unable to relate to the changes that have taken place in American society.
Although her life superficially resembles the American ideal, Evelyn is deeply unhappy with how it has turned out. As the story opens, Evelyn is suffering from what she will later recognize as depression and anxiety. The frame narrative, which takes place in Birmingham, Alabama between December 1985 and December 1986, depicts the developing friendship between a middle-aged housewife named Evelyn Couch and an elderly widow named Ninny Threadgoode.
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