Aibileen Clark: A Character Analysis

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In the town of Jackson Mississippi, Aibileen Clark is working as the help under a woman named Elizabeth Leefolt. Elizabeth is a woman who cares about gossip, superiority, and social standing within the white community. Due to Elizabeth’s hobbies and unhappiness with herself, Aibileen is forced to raise her child as her own. Aibileen had recently lost her child due to a lumbering accident which causes her to grow closer to Ms. Leefolt’s daughter, Mae Mobley. Hilly Holbrook is later introduced into the second chapter as a woman of social standing that oversees the “The Junior League”, which allows white women to come together and share their prejudice beliefs with each other. Elizabeth leefolt is also a member of this group as well as most of …show more content…

Leefolt that she is forbidden to speak to Skeeter because they think it is a negative influence on her. Skeeter takes control of the “Home Health Sanitation Initiative” created by Hilly and claims that all who wish to discard their unwanted toilets to the address of Hilly Holbrook’s home. Hilly is infuriated by this and forces the league to shun her, as well as the man that she was talking to. Minny continues to face the problem of her husband beating her and attempts to hide it from Celia, but Celia is aware of what being beaten is like. Celia offers to call the police but Minny refuses because nothing would be …show more content…

Aibileen reveals to Skeeter that Constantine gave birth to a white baby and decided to visit her in her adult years, which played a part in why she left their family. Constantine was old and weak because of her age, which wasn’t unnoticed by the women Constantine was serving. One woman raised up and refused to be treated by a slow colored woman and pressured Skeeter’s mother in firing her. After Constantine was fired, she attempted to make her way to her child that was adopted many years ago. Unfortunately Constantine died three weeks after she was fired and never had a chance to see

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