As the story goes on, Minny discovers Celia's secret drinking habit, and she hates it a lot. Minny actually cares about a white lady even if she doesn't want to. It turns out to be a misunderstanding--Celia is taking some rediculous medicine, instead of wine, to keep her baby. In the end, Celia might lose her life if there were no Minny around. This episode definitely shows the humanity overcomes racial barrier, a seed of solicitude growing in Minny's heart without her discerning it.
As for Skeeter, she makes a big progress in her book--most maids agree to help her with the narratives, after Yule May has been put in jail. I cannot help thinking that reward is not the best motivation--hatred is. Where thers is suppression, there is resistance. People finally know how to kick back until they have been beaten too hard. What if the colored people had congregated earlier, and what if they had fought with fiercer fists? The racial discrimination might have been less serious.
Skeeter's love affair with Stuart turns out to be a disaster. Actually the failure of this relationship is self-evident from the beginning: 1）As a man, Stuart is not the one who is more active in their first date. It seems that he was forced to attent the blind date. 2) Stuart did not pay any attention to his words, which obviously would irritate any woman with the nomal mind. 3) Stuart is late for the first two-family dinner--leave your girl friend and your future-mother-and-father-in-law to your parents who still ceaselessly talk about the ex-fiancee--unpardonable. 4) The most important part, he is hiding something from Skeeter. All these details hint the end of this relationship. After all, you cannot trust a man who cannot forget his ex.
