Write An Essay On Skeeter V. Hilly's

Skeeter, being born a white woman, is expected to get married, have children, and trail in the footsteps of her mother. However, she does not accept that a white woman's only role in the community is to start a family. She is "tired of the rules" (180) and wants to follow her own path and live by her own values. Skeeter becomes distant from her social status and as the book goes on, realizes that she does not have to be like every other woman in Mississippi. Skeeter's mother, Charlotte Phelan's, biggest goal is to find a husband for Skeeter whereas Skeeter says, "Would it really be so terrible if I never met a husband?" (66). She is determined to pursue her dreams of becoming a writer and be her own person, not someone that everyone else already is. Skeeter wants to do more with her life than be a housewife which gives her the title of an outcast. …show more content…
Hilly Holbrook and Elizabeth Leefolt have been friends with Skeeter for a long time and come to find that she has different thoughts on the discrimination of the blacks. When Miss Hilly brings up the bathroom initiative for the coloured people Skeeter says, "Maybe we ought to just build you a bathroom outside Hilly" (10), which makes Miss Hilly skeptical. After Skeeter writes the book about the black maids in Jackson, Miss Hilly and Miss Leefolt want nothing to do with her and do not accept her decision to fight for black people's rights. Stuart Whitworth is Skeeter's love interest and does not want to get involved in the civil rights struggles, but when he proposes to Skeeter, he finds out that she is acquainted with the black maids in the neighbourhood. "Why would you want to go stirring up trouble?" (499) he says, which clearly shows that Stuart also does not accept Skeeter as she is. It is hard for Skeeter to let go of her friends, but she knows that it is for the