I guess it makes perfect sense that Skeeter's dad would never
allow mistreatment of his help and that Skeeter's mom told Skeeter
that Stuart did not appreciate Skeeter's intellect. I, too,
thought the mom was out of character. BUT....how else could
Skeeter have been Skeeter if she had not had parents with good,
strong values that they passed to her. The times may have mutated
or accelerated Skeeter's feeling the need to speak out, but the
values must have been ingrained early.

Can you imagine being in Constantine's position? And can you
blame her daughter for behaving that way? She was raised in the
North....remember in real history that poor boy who came down to
the south to visit relatives and dared to say some flirtatious
comment to a white woman? He was killed, I believe. The rules
were not the same. The daughter could not have understood the
danger she put Constantine in.

And now to find that Constantine died and Skeeter can't say thank
you. How sad.

On 6/15/09, chippy wrote:
> On 6/15/09, chippy wrote:
>> Sorry, that chapter was just so full I was afraid I'd
>> forget the thoughts I had.
>>
>> I thought it was so funny when that editor told Skeeter she
>> was 24...to get an apt. How much easier it would've been
>> writing if she'd had her own place.
>>
>> When Skeeter's mom told her she didn't think Stuart
>> appreciated her intellect, that was totally out of
>> character for Skeeter's mom. Is she getting more
>> retrospective since she's sick and Skeeter is helping tend
>> to her so much? That came out of the blue for me.
>>
>> The Constantine story brought tears to my eyes...so sad,
>> all of it.
>>
>>
>>

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