Skeeter Phelan

William Phelan (father)
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**Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan** is a 23-year-old white woman who gets a job at The Jackson Journal. It is possible that she had known Aibileen Clark and Minny Jackson for quite a long time. She is best friends with her childhood friends Hilly Holbrook (later becomes enemies) and Elizabeth Leefolt. Skeeter's ex-boyfriend is Stuart.

Skeeter is a beautiful woman with kinky and whitish blond hair, more public than cranial who's breaking off easily. She is also extremely tall for a woman at that time.

Skeeter is an independent, modern and persistent young woman who wants to do more with her life than just get married and have children, and much of her personality was influenced my her maid Constantine Bates, with whom she especially bonded.

## Prior

Skeeter is a bundle of contradictions. She's a 23-year-old white woman with a cotton trust fund and a college degree. She lives at home on her family's cotton plantation, Longleaf. And she devotes herself, at considerable risk, to a book featuring the real stories of the black women who work for the white families in her hometown of Jackson, Mississippi. Contradictions abound, indeed.

She belongs to the Junior League and is in tight with other high-society ladies. She's been best friends with Hilly Holbrook and Elizabeth Leefolt (villainous characters) since grade school. But as the story progresses, Skeeter becomes more and more distanced from this safe social status and goes, as they say, rogue. She breaks all the rules and crosses dangerous lines – and we love her for it.

What cinches her new position of social outcast is the prank she plays on Hilly, who is trying to get a bill passed requiring Mississippi families to build outdoor bathrooms for their black employees. Well, Skeeter arranges for dozens of toilets to be dumped on Hilly's lawn, and got a big laugh out of us, at the very least. Hilly doesn't take this calmly, though, and turns Skeeter into a social pariah.

She fears, somewhat jokingly, that like Boo, she'll choose to stay inside to hide from the ugliness of society.

As Skeeter's own friends shun her, the black community embraces her, though not openly (because it's too dangerous). After the release of **The Help**, she is no longer friends with Hilly.

## Horror Strikes Again (Part 6)

Skeeter arrives at Aibileen Clark's house. "Hi, Aibileen." Skeeter says, smiling. Aibileen is somewhat relieved but filled with utter shock. She sighs with relief. "Come in, quick. Come in." Aibileen quickly responds, looking around her neighborhood. She shuts the screen door, then her main back door. She shows Skeeter the living room. Skeeter sits on a old red sofa. "Aibileen...someone's been murdering all these people." says Skeeter. Aibileen gives a shocked look on her face.

"Who?" she asks. "There's been rumors that someone murdered 4 people in the past 2 weeks so far." Skeeter sighs. Aibileen also sighs. "Oh, Lord." Aibileen mutters under her breath. She twirls the hunting knife across her fingers behind her back. Skeeter doesn't see the knife. "Well, I should get going. The police are looking at surveillance cameras, tracking the killer, Aibileen. I know you're scared." Skeeter says. She puts her hand on Abilene's shoulder, causing her to look down.

## Exposed (Part 7)

Skeeter appears at Mae Mobley Leefolt's funeral with Stuart.