the interfaces between the black maids and their white owners are explored. for instance, Miss Hilly sits at the head of the Junior League, which represents the high class women in Jackson city; she is attempting to institute laws on separate bathrooms for blacks and whites. She wants to make it a law so it would be a crime for owners to allow blacks to use white bathrooms. Skeeter thinks this is ridiculous. the white women have social power over the black maids by constructing hurtful gossip, to prevent the maids from gaining
