it so seriously that she proposes a bill of Home Help Sanitation Initiative which is endorsed by the White Citizen’s Council. Feeling encouraged, Hilly starts to push those around her to take immediate actions, and ask Skeeter to have her initiative published in the newsletters. Elizabeth feels a bit embarrassed at first but she soon gets it over and starts to buy Hilly’s ideas. Skeeter is pretty abhorred by her friend’s racist opinions and she feels quite uncomfortable when Hilly is talking aloud about her disgust of the black helps at the presence of Aibileen. To show her disapproval, she says sarcastically that Hilly should build herself a bathroom outside the house, and later she expresses her regret for what happens to Aibileen in private.
8. What does Skeeter’s mom tell her about their maid, Constantine? Why is Skeeter skeptical? Why is she so upset to find out that Constantine is actually fired by her mom? Skeeter is told by her mom after she returns from school that their old maid Constantine quits the job, and moves to Chicago with her own daughter. However, Skeeter gets suspicious because Constantine never writes to her and when she sees that Aibileen is holding something back on mentioning Constantine and her family looks rather uneasy while assuring her that Constantine simply moves on, she figures it out that the old maid is actually fired by her mom. Skeeter feels bitter and upset because Constantine has been working in her family for 29 years and while her mom is busy with her own social life, it is Constantine who brings her up, keeps accompany with her and encourages her to become a woman with self-confidence and a free will. 9. Why does Skeeter call Elaine Stein, the well-known publisher in New York? Does Elaine Stein take Skeeter’s c