Miss Hilly, a very manipulative character in the novel, is capable of ruining people’s reputations. Hilly’s way of talking about the help characterizes her as someone who thinks she has the audacity to insult others for the simplest things. “Let’s give a special round of applause to the help, for all the wonderful food they cooked and served, and for the desserts they made for the Auction.”(Stockett 383). For the help, they witnessed that Hilly was just another white racist woman trying to make things ‘equal’, when in reality, she only does it to impress her peers. “Racial segregation as such was not a significant social practice before slavery was abolished because slavery itself was a system of subordination.”(Tushnet 301-304). The act
