In Fried Green Tomatoes; By Fannie Flagg, she uses setting throught the story.

For example the Whistle Stop Cafe, it is involved in the story the whole time. Not just the building itself but the people who own it, the people who eat there, etc. Everyone knows where it is and who owns it, Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison. The author expands the setting by using those characters and deepining there character first. Idgie is a wild at heart, caring and tough young woman, sh knows right from wrong; although she may not always do the right thing at that moment it wasa right to her. The time period as 1920's, a racist time towards blacks but people