Minny tells Aibileen that she took revenge on Hilly, but she won’t give her the details, only telling her that it involved a pie. Hilly has also spread rumors about Minny being a thief so none of the other neighbors will hire her. 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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