![]() ![]() She pals around with Hilly Holbrook, domineering socialite, and Elizabeth Leefolt, who jumps at Hilly’s every beckon call attempting to keep her tenuous hold on her homespun standing in Jackson’s social circles. Twenty-three year old Skeeter Phelan plays the white female protagonist who feels alien to her native Jackson after studying literature and journalism at Ole Miss. Minny is the younger, sassy, often fired maid and mother of five children of her own. Aibilene is the older, calmer, wiser maid who loves the children she cares for. The two African American women, Aibilene and Minny, work as maids in the homes of Jackson’s white families. The novel recounts the lives of six women in 1960s Jackson, MS. Even Stockett’s use of vernacular feels natural rather than strained. At 522 pages, The Help reads very quickly and smoothly. ![]()
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