Hilly Holbrook

"Ah! Ah! Go away! Go away! No! Oh God! Ah! Oh God! Please! Help me! No, no, no! Ah! Please! Help me!"

—Hilly screaming in fear just moments before she is shot in the forehead by Aibileen Clark.

 **Family** | Missus Walters (mother)
Mr. Walters (father; deceased)
William Holbrook (husband)

**Hilly Holbrook** was the town's popular, mean and racist resident who framed Aibileen Clark for "stealing" silver 10 ½ years ago. She was also the Queen Bee and president of the *Junior League*. She is also best friends with childhood friend Elizabeth Leefolt.

Hilly is a very snobby, rude, spoiled, selfish and racist white woman who is best friends with her childhood friends, Skeeter Phelan (later becomes enemies), and Elizabeth. Hilly is the Jackson Suburban Queen Bee of the town's women.

Hilly is a leading figure among the upper-class young women of Jackson, Mississippi in 1963. She is married to a future politician, William Holbrook and has a son, Billy and where she goes all of her lady friends go too. Her poise, beauty and outward cheeriness mask her vindictive and greedy personality. She was once a close friend of protagonist Skeeter, but they begin to grow apart when Skeeter starts to realize how twisted Hilly truly is. Though she gives a show of friendliness, she is deeply racist, and leads her friends in support of segregation.

When her mother begins showing signs of senility, Hilly invites her and her black maid, Minny Jackson to stay in her house, firing her own maid. Her real motive, it turns out, was to have Minny and her superior cooking for herself. One of Hilly's initiatives is to have every house build a separate bathroom for black maids, believing that African Americans carry different diseases and that every person who shares a bathroom with a colored person is doomed to become infected with the disease. Until she has one built, she orders Minny to relieve herself outside. When she orders Minny to do this during a violent thunderstorm, Minny sneaks upstairs to use the indoor bathroom. When she discovers this, Hilly fires her, and spreads rumors that she caught Minny stealing something, making it almost impossible for her to find a new job.

Minny has her revenge on Hilly when she shows up offering her own waste baked into a chocolate pie. Hilly eats two slices of the pie before Minny reveals the truth to her. Her mother, hearing this, bursts out laughing. Unable to take the humiliation, Hilly commits her aging mother to a nursing home for laughing at her. Minny, meanwhile, ends up working for Celia Foote, a girl from a poor family who has married Johnny Foote, an old flame of Hilly's. Hilly and her friends refuse to allow Celia to join their circle, partly out of prejudice against her poor background, partly in anger over Celia's marrying Johnny.

Hilly's new maid, Yule Mae Davis asks her for a loan so she can send her sons to college, offering to work for nothing until it is paid off. Hilly refuses, and stalks Yule Mae, attempting to catch her. Yule Mae finds a lost ring behind Hilly's sofa, and pawns it to raise more money. Discovering this, Hilly orders Yule Mae arrested.

Meanwhile, Skeeter, with the help of Minny and Aibileen Clark, has been writing a book about black maid's experiences. When they worry Hilly will discover that the book is partly about her, Minny tells Skeeter to include the story of the chocolate pie. As Minny planned, Hilly insistently denies that the book is about her or anyone else in Jackson, for fear of being exposed as the victim of Minny's prank.

She showes her true colors when she confronts Skeeter about the book being called 'The Help.' She arrives on Skeeter's porch drunk and threatening to sue. She rats on Skeeter's mother about the book, but Charlotte Phelan as already guessed, and throws her off the property.

Hilly decides to take her revenge on Minny and Aibleen. She instructs her husband to get Minny's abusive husband fired. When the husband tries to beat Minny up for this, Minny takes her children and leaves him to work full time for Celia.

Hilly tries to take revenge on Abileen by telling her employer, Elizabeth, that Aibileen stole some of her silverware. When she threatens to have her arrested, Aibleen stands up to her and warns her that she has enough information to write a new book about her evil ways. Hilly backed down, humiliated and defeated for good. Aibleen leaves feeling good about herself, for finally being free from people like Hilly.

## Rest in Peace (Part 1)

Hilly was screaming and fleeing out of a building. She kept yelling desperately for help in hopes that someone would come to her aid, however, her screaming only attracted more walkers, causing them to pile into the streets after her. While hysterically screaming and calling out for help, she receives a bite in the calf by a walker who is underneath a truck. While shrieking for help, another walker bites Hilly gets bit in the neck and she runs away. She then gets shot by Aibileen Clark with her rifle to put her out of her misery and is soon devoured by walkers.

## Death

### Killed By

* Walkers (Caused)
* Aibileen Clark (Out of Mercy, Determinant)

Hilly SCREAMS. "Go away! Go, go---!" Hilly SCREAMS while running out of a building but trips and falls onto the road. A walker follows behind her, snarling. "Help me!" YELLS Hilly. More walkers pour into the streets. "Somebody help me! Oh, God! Oh God!" SCREAMS Hilly. Hilly continues SCREAMING. She falls and backs away as a walker crawls towards her just inches away from her scrambling feet. "Get away! Ah! Ah! Ahh! Ahh!" Hilly CRIES. She gets back up but is almost surrounded. Suddenly, a walker from underneath a truck grabs her leg and bites her in the calf while she SCREAMS in distress and jumps in terror. She falls back down due to the pain. She SCREAMS from the possible pain she endured or from fear or possibly for both reasons. "No! No! Go away! Go---go away! No! Oh God! Oh God!" CRIES Hilly as she shoves a walker away from her face. "Please! Help me!" SCREAMS a panicked and terrified Hilly. While distracted, a walker comes up from behind her, yanks her hair and bites into the side of her neck. Hilly SCREAMS in pain as blood sprays out. She manages to free herself and runs away. She continues SCREAMING in terror as the walkers slowly walk closer, surrounding her. "Ah! Ah! Go away! Go away! No! Oh God! Ah! Oh God! Please! Help me! No, no, no! Ah! Please! Help me!" Hilly SCREAMS in fear. She is shot in the forehead by Aibileen Clark, instantly killing her and silencing her screams. Her body drops to the ground as walkers surround her and devour her corpse.

## Coroner Report

Victim was found lying in the street nearby a building. The cause of death for the victim was a bullet hole to the forehead, which erupted the frontal lobe, instantly killing the victim. The victim also suffered initial bite wounds to the calf and neck before her main demise.

## Trivia

- Hilly's death is a spoof of Beatrice's death from *The Walking Dead Video Game*.

**Here's the link:** http://walkingdead.wikia.com/wiki/Beatrice\_(Video\_Game)

- Hilly's demise is similar to Mae Mobley Leefolt's demise. They both get attacked by Walkers and both get bit in the neck. However, the *only* difference was the two deaths is that Hilly first gets bit in the leg and Mae Mobley first gets bit in the arm.