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Meanwhile, Skeeter gets a job writing an advice column about housekeeping for the Jackson Journal. Celia is kind to Minny and does not treat her any differently for being black. Minny ultimately finds work with the white housewife Celia Foote, a woman none of the white housewives in the community befriends because she comes from a working class background. Minny tells Aibileen that she took revenge on Hilly, but she won’t give her the details, only telling her that it involved a pie. Hilly has also spread rumors about Minny being a thief so none of the other neighbors will hire her. Unwilling to express her true feelings to a white woman, Aibileen says that everything is fine.Ī few days later, Minny Jackson, another black maid and Aibileen’s best friend, loses her job working for Hilly’s mother. Disgusted by Hilly’s idea, Skeeter finds Aibileen and asks if she ever wished she could change things.

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The novel opens with a luncheon at Leefolt’s house where the 23-year-old white women Hilly Holbrook and Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan discuss Hilly’s initiative to pass a bill that would require every white household to have a separate bathroom for black housemaids. Miss Leefolt, a white housewife, neglects her daughter, but Aibileen showers Mae Mobley with affection. Set in Jackson, Mississippi, the novel begins in August 1962 with Aibileen Clark, a middle-aged black domestic worker, taking care of Elizabeth Leefolt’s only child, Mae Mobley.

Kathryn stockett cliffsnotes on stockett's the help library edition