The Help *Characters*

Aibileen Clark is a colored maid who has worked her whole life taking care of white women's children and house. She lost her only son, Treelore, which sent her into a great depression. The only person who took care of the single woman was Minny Jackson, Aibileen's best friend who worked for Hilly Holbrooke's mother. Mrs. Hilly is conceited and spread rumors about Minny so that other women wouldn't hire her after she sent her mother to a nursing home. Everyone heard these rumors besides Celia Foote, a cheerful and peppy white woman recently married to Hilly's ex boyfriend. Eugenia, "Skeeter", is a tall, single, educated white woman who has a different view on black maids than her friends Elizabeth and Hilly do. She was raised by her maid, Constantine, who was fired while she was away at college. While Skeeter's friends are off building outside bathrooms for the maids, she is helping Aibileen and Minny get a book published that shows the everyday tragedies that go on in a colored maids work hours.