53-year-old Aibileen, a black maid residing in Jackson Mississippi, takes care of white babies and does housework for white families to a make ends meet. Currently, she takes care of two-year-old Mae Mobley Leefolt
*Mae Mobley's mother, 23-year-old Elizabeth Leefolt, dislikes her daughter and seems to have a distaste for Mae Mobley's affection for Aibileen
*Elizabeth invites her friends over to her house. Skeeter Phelan and Hilly Holbrook shows up as well Hilly's mother, Miss Walter. While serving refreshments, Aibileen overhears Hilly hinting that Miss Walter's maid by the name of Minny, who also happens to be Aibileen's best friend, is stealing from Miss Walter *Minny calls Aibileen at home after a while. Hilly's sending Miss Walters to a nursing home which means Minny is out of a job. Aibileen promises to look out for a new job for her *Celia Foote, who is in town, calls and Aibileen answers the phone at the Leefolts' to which Celia asks her to recommend a maid. Aibileen replies by telling Celia to call Minny at home. By the time Aibileen calls Minny at Miss Walter's to give a heads up, Celia has already called over there *Minny is at Celia’s house for an interview, and is uneasy. Celia gives Minny a tour of the house and says she has never hired a maid before *Celia offers to pay Minny twice the amount that Miss Walters paid her for her services, however Celia wants to keep Minny a secret from her husband, Johnny, so he thinks she can take care of the house and cook properly *Minny agrees although Minny makes Celia promise to tell her husband about hiring Minny as a maid right before Christmas *The first week Minny works for Celia, she cleans the house. Suddenly, Minny realizes Mr. Johnny has come home. Minny yells to Celia, and then hides in the bathroom *Skeeter checks the mail and finds a letter from Elaine Stein at the publishing company Skeeter applied to. The letter says that editors need experience. A few days later, she's offered a job writing the Miss Myrna column. Skeeter is excited and convinces a very reluctant Elizabeth to consult with Aibileen *At home, a very upset Skeeter asks her mother Charlotte if she fired Constantine, a maid who worked for them for 29 years. Charlotte admits that she did, but still won't explain why *Skeeter also learns that Constantine had a daughter who was born with whiter skin who got her skin tone from Constantine's white father *Skeeter gets a letter from Elaine Stein saying that none of Skeeter's ideas are all that exciting and Skeeter is very upset, but then she gets a good idea *Skeeter visits Aibileen and tells her the good idea which is she wants to interview local maids about their experiences working for white families and to combine their stories into a book. However, Aibileen tells Skeeter this is way too dangerous and that none of the maids will agree to it *Skeeter writes a letter to Elaine Stein once again, saying that her idea is to interview local maids about their experiences working for white families and Elaine Stein agrees *Skeeter …show more content…
Skeeter senses that Hilly knows something about her work when she goes to pick it up
*It is discovered that civil rights leader Medgar Evers has been murdered by the KKK. His death causes an uproar in racial tension within the town
*Skeeter confronts Hilly into why she's been acting out of character with her. Hilly states that she saw the Jim Crow laws pamphlets and feels as though Skeeter wants to change the outdated laws
*Aibileen looks around for maids who might be interested in helping her and Skeeter although a lot of maids have declined
*Yule May, a maid who works for Hilly, starts asking Aibileen about her and Skeeter’s interviews and she starts becoming more interested, planning to contact Aibileen privately soon
*Minny makes the discovery that Celia is secretly drinking which causes Minny to become angry. She wants to confront Celia about her drinking, but chooses otherwise due to her mother’s number one
*Mae Mobley's mother, 23-year-old Elizabeth Leefolt, dislikes her daughter and seems to have a distaste for Mae Mobley's affection for Aibileen
*Elizabeth invites her friends over to her house. Skeeter Phelan and Hilly Holbrook shows up as well Hilly's mother, Miss Walter. While serving refreshments, Aibileen overhears Hilly hinting that Miss Walter's maid by the name of Minny, who also happens to be Aibileen's best friend, is stealing from Miss Walter *Minny calls Aibileen at home after a while. Hilly's sending Miss Walters to a nursing home which means Minny is out of a job. Aibileen promises to look out for a new job for her *Celia Foote, who is in town, calls and Aibileen answers the phone at the Leefolts' to which Celia asks her to recommend a maid. Aibileen replies by telling Celia to call Minny at home. By the time Aibileen calls Minny at Miss Walter's to give a heads up, Celia has already called over there *Minny is at Celia’s house for an interview, and is uneasy. Celia gives Minny a tour of the house and says she has never hired a maid before *Celia offers to pay Minny twice the amount that Miss Walters paid her for her services, however Celia wants to keep Minny a secret from her husband, Johnny, so he thinks she can take care of the house and cook properly *Minny agrees although Minny makes Celia promise to tell her husband about hiring Minny as a maid right before Christmas *The first week Minny works for Celia, she cleans the house. Suddenly, Minny realizes Mr. Johnny has come home. Minny yells to Celia, and then hides in the bathroom *Skeeter checks the mail and finds a letter from Elaine Stein at the publishing company Skeeter applied to. The letter says that editors need experience. A few days later, she's offered a job writing the Miss Myrna column. Skeeter is excited and convinces a very reluctant Elizabeth to consult with Aibileen *At home, a very upset Skeeter asks her mother Charlotte if she fired Constantine, a maid who worked for them for 29 years. Charlotte admits that she did, but still won't explain why *Skeeter also learns that Constantine had a daughter who was born with whiter skin who got her skin tone from Constantine's white father *Skeeter gets a letter from Elaine Stein saying that none of Skeeter's ideas are all that exciting and Skeeter is very upset, but then she gets a good idea *Skeeter visits Aibileen and tells her the good idea which is she wants to interview local maids about their experiences working for white families and to combine their stories into a book. However, Aibileen tells Skeeter this is way too dangerous and that none of the maids will agree to it *Skeeter writes a letter to Elaine Stein once again, saying that her idea is to interview local maids about their experiences working for white families and Elaine Stein agrees *Skeeter …show more content…
Skeeter senses that Hilly knows something about her work when she goes to pick it up
*It is discovered that civil rights leader Medgar Evers has been murdered by the KKK. His death causes an uproar in racial tension within the town
*Skeeter confronts Hilly into why she's been acting out of character with her. Hilly states that she saw the Jim Crow laws pamphlets and feels as though Skeeter wants to change the outdated laws
*Aibileen looks around for maids who might be interested in helping her and Skeeter although a lot of maids have declined
*Yule May, a maid who works for Hilly, starts asking Aibileen about her and Skeeter’s interviews and she starts becoming more interested, planning to contact Aibileen privately soon
*Minny makes the discovery that Celia is secretly drinking which causes Minny to become angry. She wants to confront Celia about her drinking, but chooses otherwise due to her mother’s number one