Hybridity The prime example of this in the text is the issue of hybridity. If society has two categories in relation to the status of African Americans and the Euro-Americans, one can question the place of the mixed-blood in society. Technically they are still considered African-Americans due to the one-drop rule. Yet, the novel introduces the limits of this structure by Constantine's story in the novel. Firstly, her own father is a white man. Skeeter recalls her talking about this and that the father would come and visit her as a child every Saturday. Although she was his daughter and he loved her, he could not accept her as his own child.1 He could not marry her mother or take Constantine into his own home. Therefore, Constantine was forced …show more content…
Nevertheless, in terms of voice Stockett might understand it but there is a still ambiguity rather she understands the extent of it. At the end of the novel Constantine passes away. The only accounts the reader have of her is through the other characters. Moreover, Constantine never has the chance to speak up in the novel and have her own voice. One can argue that this symbolises the marginalisation of the hybrid that even in an account where the aim is to give voice to the 'other' it lacks in involving the full extent of the African American community and the ones that are marginalised. There is no consideration for the individual nature of each person and Stockett, despite that she shows the blurring between the African American community and Euro-American community and aims to limit this distinction, she still fails to see beyond the group identity. She knows the existing variety, yet still their voice has to come through other people in the novel. In other words, Constantine and other hybrids are mentioned, yet are unable to re-establish their own