She's at home, burning up from the July heat. Her parents refuse to get air conditioning. Skeeter goes out to the Cadillac and sits in the air conditioning with her dress up and her eyes closed. Soon, she hears the passenger door open, and there's Stuart. He invites her to go with him to Biloxi where they'd share a hotel room.
She wants to, but she says she can't. Stuart kisses her and puts his hand on her thigh to try to convince her. She says she'd have to lie to her mother. Stuart doesn't want this; he doesn't like lies. He invites her and her parents to come over for dinner and meet his parents in three weeks.
But underneath the surface, Hilly… read analysis of Hilly Holbrook. She, Hilly , and Skeeter have been best friends since elementary school. Stuart Whitworth, Jr. The son of a prominent segregationist senator, Stuart courts Skeeter throughout the novel. What… read analysis of Stuart Whitworth, Jr. The novel begins in the months after Constantine has left Jackson for Chicago without telling Skeeter.
Throughout the novel, Skeeter… read analysis of Constantine Bates. Though dying of cancer, Charlotte is a fighter and is still alive at the end of… read analysis of Charlotte Phelan. Yule May asked Miss Hilly for a loan, but when she refused, she resorted to theft in order to give… read analysis of Yule May. She shows that she is a good-humored woman with a… read analysis of Miss Walters.
Disdainful of the racist white community, she embarrasses Charlotte Phelan by socializing with her white friends.
A self-respecting woman, she spits in… read analysis of Lulabelle Bates. Elaine Stein is the confident New York City book agent who inspires Skeeter to write her book about the maids. Johnny is the former boyfriend of Miss Hilly , but broke up with her so that he could start dating Celia.
It is an impossible relationship, yet the love between maid and child is a constant theme in Southern culture. The civil rights movement is also introduced in these chapters when Skeeter's mother discovers Skeeter watching the national news with Pascagoula looking on. Marches and protests are being organized across the country which will eventually impact Jackson, too. Skeeter's mother chastises her daughter for "encouraging" the help, but it is clear that the world is changing and the way race relations have been in the South will not be tolerated in the future.
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