Hilly's Character Analysis

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Skeeter finds discrimination demeaning and dehumanizing and more than not reacts with the intent to make a change. When she was at Elizabeth Leefolts house for their bridge club meeting, Aibileen was serving the woman their food, when all of a sudden Hilly Holbrook, or as she believes, queen of the town, had to use the restroom, Elizabeth said to use hers but Hilly wanted no part in that because the help used that bathroom as well. Hilly is a firm believer that the help needs to have their own bathroom for their own personal use, and makes that very clear in front of Skeeter, Elizabeth, and Aibileen. As Hilly puts her rant to a rest, Skeeter gets up and goes to the kitchen to talk to Aibileen to apologize for what she had to hear. Skeeter believes in equality in equality and fairness among everyone, and when that whole thing happened she clearly did not agree with Hilly and infact felt sympathy towards …show more content…
She believes that there is no reason to discriminate against them because they too are people and deserve to be treated like it. Moving right along, in the 1960’s, it was very unusual for a woman to go to college for more than two years, and the only reason they did go was to get their “Mrs” degree to become a wife. Skeeter on the other hand could be considered an outcast because she attended all four years of college and feels she can be successful on her own and does not need a man to have self worth. Hilly and her mother are constantly returning to the subject of trying to get her a man, because after all that is what is normal and why would anyone dare to be different. Skeeter feels that she does not need a man to be something in the world, she knows she is more than just a housewife and is rightfully so. She knows she can be successful and be her own person without having her

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