"Although it was
late, Evelyn decided to drive by the old house one more time. It was just
getting dark, and as she came down the street, her lights hit the windows in
such a way that it looked to her like there were people inside, moving
around...and all of a sudden, she could have sworn that she heard Essie Rue
pounding away at the old piano in the parlor...Buffalo gals, won't you come out
tonight, come out tonight..."
"Evelyn stopped the
car and sat there, sobbing like her heart would break, wondering why people had
to get old and die." (p. 384)
Flagg effectively expresses the pain that Evelyn feels when she visits
Whistle Stop through imagery and flashback. Earlier in the paragraph Flagg
expresses how the house is torn up and ragged but you could still feel the love
that the Threadgoode family had given to the house. Evelyn has a small
flashback to what the house must have looked like when the whole family was
there. The entire story is a flashback so this section represents the layout of
the entire novel. Flagg does a great job capturing the past and expressing the
sorrowness that Eveyln feels.
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