Skeeter And Hilly Character Analysis

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In the The Help by Kathryn Stockett, Skeeter and Hilly’s relationship is very peculiar. Skeeter is a twenty three year old woman who lives with her parents in Jackson Mississippi, Longleaf Cotton Plantations. Skeeter’s actual name is Eugenia Phelan. She is a young brilliant women who graduated from the University of Mississippi, or Skeeter would like to call it Ole Miss. She is a lot taller compared to other women in Jackson, and most of the guys. Skeeter isn’t racist like the other women in Jackson. Skeeter is bright woman who holds different ideologies, and values. On the other hand Hilly grew up to be wealthy and dropped out of college to marry her husband. Hilly is a very respectable women in Jackson. She is respectable women because she is the president of the Jackson Junior League and she is involved in many charities like collecting canned foods for the Poor Starving Children of Africa. However Hilly tries to control other women and holds power over them with blackmail, and threats. In addition she is extremely racist even though she try to cover it up. She lives in Jackson Mississippi with her husband William Holbrook…show more content…
Since Hilly was the President of the Jackson Junior League, Skeeter was the editor. She wrote all the articles and letters that Hilly wanted. Skeeter thought that Hilly was a person that knew how to have fun. They always hung out with their friend Elizabeth. Life is good for them because they’re all married, but Skeeter is single. Hilly always tries hard to get Skeeter a date with the Senator's son Stewart because it’s abnormal for a women not to be married. Skeeter is very passionate about her writing so she applied to a Publishing Company, and she got a response back saying that she needs more experience. On October 27, 1962, Skeeter got a job as a newspaper writer on the “Ms.Myrna” Column. She answered people's questions about housekeeping, but she has no idea about
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