While running the Whistle Stop Cafe, Idgie and Ruth help some people, especially during the extraordinary destitution, when the ladies support each eager individual – often at no cost – who passes. through their entrances. Idgie also supports the “colored” occupants of Whistle Stop by serving them from indirect access – despite the fact that segregation is strictly enforced – and treating its people of color with the same reasonableness as it treats its workers whites. A very gruesome scene that leads to the development of Idgie's character is when the future Bennett attempts to take the baby from her house one night, a brightly colored worker, Sipsey, kills him with a hot plate, and her child , Huge. George dumps the body at that week's barbecue, which he then feeds to the analysts investigating the homicide. Eventually, when Idgie is captured for her wrongdoing years after the fact, she denies fault to either Big George or Sipsey and risks prison time by misleading the jury into providing a plausible excuse for each of them. The moment Ruth dies, Idgie's story virtually ceases to operate, but at the end of the novel it is indicated that she is still alive. But when Idgie was young, it was clear that she wasn't always like that because she was the type to run around and scrape her knees and get bruised eyes and get dirty, and that's just what she was doing. Her own mother couldn't do much to control her. Another aspect that reveals a character trait of Idgie is when Buddy dies. Idgie runs away and doesn't let anyone in her family near her. She might go back just to check on her family, and yet she was living... middle of paper... and scratching her knees and having bruised eyes and dirty clothes, and that's just the way it is she was and nothing would ever change that, at least in her mind, but eventually we all grew up, just like her and her character as depicted in the examples above. Idgie was definitely the wild child in the book Fried Green Tomatoes. Around the time my friend died, Idgie ran away and changed, for better or worse, it's more a matter of perspective. She could come right after her progression to see how her family was doing, so it's not that she didn't care about her family, it's just that she wanted to be alone physically and mentally. She needed to do things her way, it was the path in life that suited her. In conclusion, it seems that Idgie Threadgoode's character is that she cares about others but shows it in a very unloving way..