Stockett uses the toilet, …show more content…
The toilet and poo pie are two symbols that make the reader understand what the characters are dealing with regarding race. The toilet symbolizes the “dirty” image whites have for coloured people and how they have to abide to what the whites say. The poo pie symbolizes power and closure towards the race stereotypes. Stockett uses irony to make the reader think and interpret what coloured maids have to go through. These two symbols are used to demonstrate how blacks are considered lesser than whites and have to follow the “white rules”