Hilly's Point Of View

In the book The Help it is told from the perspective of Abilene, Minny and Skeeter. But no one ever listened to Hilly Holbrook maybe that would explain why she is so mean. There might be something everyone else reading the book does not understand. I mean imagine living in a world where your queen bee can you really speak your mind. There could be a better explanation to why she needs a different bathroom from her maid. I think we should get to know Hilly.

Hilly wants every white home to have a separate bathroom for the help and she notified the surgeon general to endorse the idea. Some people thought it was a good idea and some thought it was bad, for example Lie Elizabeth said "You will get disease from those toilets"  but did we ever really hear why Hilly wanted it. Facts could have told her that there help could spread disease and she was looking out for her children. Hilly maybe did not even notice that she was legalizing discriminatory practices and reinforcing racist opinions. Hilly raises her voice 3 octaves higher when she is talking to her maids or someone else’s why is that? Well she probably thinks that they have less intelligence and that is apparent in there speaking manner.

Hilly thinks that she should not give her maid money because she thinks instead of feeding their kids they will go to a voodoo tent and get a tattoo. Obviously Hilly has many misconceptions about African life and tradition.

From seeing the story from Hillys point of view I think she does not understand a lot of things. For example like the African life and tradition. As well as being racist and discriminating. Although I still don’t understand Hilly and why she has to be so mean, I at least understand her a little