Skeeter Phelan Characters

In Kathryn Stockett’s The Help there are several dynamic characters, one of those being Miss Skeeter Phelan, who undergoes a change in attitude. Skeeter’s ideas and knowledge how the maids were treated was very limited at the beginning of the novel, as she hadn’t had the opportunity to keep track of her own maid as an adult. Skeeter, throughout the book, tried her best to learn about the lives of the maids and to not insult them, however, earlier on in her life she had been offensive towards Aibileen, and Aibileen reminded her, “She (Aibileen) tells me that I (Skeeter) once commented that colored people attend too much church,” (Stockett 179). This opinion of Skeeter’s stuck with Aibileen since it happened, and hearing that Aibileen overheard …show more content…
However, after Skeeter learned of Hilly’s misinformation and inconveniences towards and about the maids, Skeeter physically placed toilets on Hilly’s lawn in to protest the bathroom initiative and to publicly shame her, as stated, “ I’d (Skeeter) paid Pascagoula’s brothers … to put those junkyard pots onto Hilly’s lawn …” (Stockett 407). As a result, Skeeter told off Hilly, in a way that resulted in more of an effect on both her and the rest of the town, while also embarrassing Hilly like how she humiliated the colored maids. In addition to this, Skeeter’s and the maids’ book was published and the women of Jackson were affected by that, this all occurring because Skeeter became more confident in her beliefs, causing her to protest against the maid keepers of Jackson. To conclude, Skeeter became aware of the prejudiced treatment of the colored citizens, and protested against it, changing her attitude towards the world around her, further showing her being a dynamic