Miss Celia and the Societal Expectation Over time social status can create different conflicts. These varied situations can lead to a division between people in dissimilar social classes. The unalike societal rankings force certain individuals to treat those lower in class with less importance. Women that come from a lower class are often treated poorly by the women of the upper-class like in the town of Jackson, Mississippi during the 1960s. In this time period, if you were not from the same social ranking as everyone else one would be seen as less important and treated poorly. In The Help, Kathryn Stockett utilizes the dilemma of Celia Foote not fitting in with the upper-class society of women to successfully display how social rankings partitions between individuals and formulates situation associated with the treatment of the help and racism
Miss Celia is treated unequally by women from …show more content…
Since Celia’s background is vastly different from most women of Jackson, Mississippi she does not see the same difference between black and white that the upper-class women see. Celia displays this lack of racism when, “she [Celia] has sat down and eaten lunch with me [Minny] every single day since I started working here. I [Minny] don’t mean in the same room, I [Minny] mean at the same table” (Stockett 215). Since Celia always lived her life without maids and servants now that she lives in Jackson all of her belief are completely opposite of the upper-class women. Many upper-class women would not even dream of allowing the help to sit in same room as them and especially at the same table. Celia does not see the racial divide between her and the help. She thinks of them as an equal which is something that the other women definitely do not see. Celia’s childhood mirrors her actions when dealing with the
Miss Celia is treated unequally by women from …show more content…
Since Celia’s background is vastly different from most women of Jackson, Mississippi she does not see the same difference between black and white that the upper-class women see. Celia displays this lack of racism when, “she [Celia] has sat down and eaten lunch with me [Minny] every single day since I started working here. I [Minny] don’t mean in the same room, I [Minny] mean at the same table” (Stockett 215). Since Celia always lived her life without maids and servants now that she lives in Jackson all of her belief are completely opposite of the upper-class women. Many upper-class women would not even dream of allowing the help to sit in same room as them and especially at the same table. Celia does not see the racial divide between her and the help. She thinks of them as an equal which is something that the other women definitely do not see. Celia’s childhood mirrors her actions when dealing with the