In the book, “The Help”, written by Kathryn Stockett, there are many controversial characters that the reader watches evolve throughout the course of the book. Skeeter Phelan is a character that changes drastically over the course of the book. In the beginning of the book Skeeter is a shy, insecure, young woman who doesn't know what she wants to do or become of herself.All she knows is that she wants to write. For Skeeter’s entire childhood her mom has always put it into her head that she is never enough. Not pretty enough, graceful enough, doesn’t obey enough. Or she tells her she's to much of something. To tall, to outgoing, too much hair. Her mom puts it into her head that she will never get a husband looking and behaving the way she …show more content…
However, in that time it was looked down upon for women to want to be anything but a housewife. Skeeter once again was made to feel she couldn’t do what she wanted. Not just by her mother, but by her “friends”, Elizabeth and Hilly. Skeeter started writing the cleaning column for the local newspaper at the beginning of the book. Without realising it that was a huge turning point, not just for Skeeter but for Aibileen as well. Skeeter knew she would need help with writing the advice so she asked Aibileen to help her. As Skeeter and Aibileen begin to talk about topics other than cleaning Skeeter realises how wrong everyone has been about blacks in the south. Aibileen helped Skeeter break out of her shell and the conformities she had been raised to believe. Skeeter was always different from believing what everyone else believed in the south. She just never knew how to discuss that or why she thought that. A lot of that is probably due to Skeeter practically being raised by her maid, Constantine. Constantine more than likely tried to get Skeeter to think for herself. When Skeeter’s mom would belittle her Constantine was always there to pick up the pieces. However, Skeeter always knew in her mind that how African Americans were treated was unfairly. With that being in Skeeters head, the inspiration to write about what black maids in the South deal with was the push she needed to address Aibileen about helping her write the …show more content…
Some of that may be due to Stuart Whitworth. Skeeter and stuarts relationship was off to a rocky start from the beginning. Everyone wanted Skeeter to be the perfect girlfriend for Stuart. In hopes that one day they would get married, have kids, and she would be a typical southern housewife. Skeeter, however, refused to be that for him. She knew she wanted to be a writer and she was not going to let anything change that. A good example of that would be when Skeeter wore a short dress and told Stuart the truth about the book she had been writing. Stuart told Skeeter that she probably should not have worn that dress. In the beginning of the book Skeeter would have cared very much about someone saying that, especially Stuart. Quite frankly in that moment she could not have cared less. In the writer's opinion, that is when one sees a turning point in Skeeters mind and how she portrays herself. That also just so happened to be the night Stuart and Skeeter broke