The central character, Eugenia 'Skeeter' Phelan, is able to use her courage to empower black maids and overcome social pressure. As a member of high-society and the Junior League, she is under enormous pressure to give up her journalistic aspirations and become a housewife. Her interest in the maids’ stories comes as a surprise, but sparked when she became uncomfortable with the attitude of her white friends towards their ‘help’. Skeeter had a close relationship with Constantine, the black woman who raised her. Constantine taught Skeeter to love herself and not to buy into racial prejudices. Inspired by this, she devotes herself to an anonymous book that reveals the underbelly of relationships between black and white women. This perspective