![]() ![]() Unwilling to express her true feelings to a white woman, Aibileen says that everything is fine.Ī few days later, Minny Jackson, another black maid and Aibileen’s best friend, loses her job working for Hilly’s mother. ![]() Disgusted by Hilly’s idea, Skeeter finds Aibileen and asks if she ever wished she could change things. The novel opens with a luncheon at Leefolt’s house where the 23-year-old white women Hilly Holbrook and Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan discuss Hilly’s initiative to pass a bill that would require every white household to have a separate bathroom for black housemaids. Miss Leefolt, a white housewife, neglects her daughter, but Aibileen showers Mae Mobley with affection. ![]() Set in Jackson, Mississippi, the novel begins in August 1962 with Aibileen Clark, a middle-aged black domestic worker, taking care of Elizabeth Leefolt’s only child, Mae Mobley. ![]()
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