Now that Skeeter has earned her college degree and is planning on becoming a journalist, she discovers that she doesn’t have as much in common with her old female friends as she used to. Skeeter is beginning to accept the black maids as worthy individuals and equals. She doesn’t like Hilly’s “Home Help Sanitation Initiative,” which would require white households to have extra dedicated bathrooms to be used only by black employees. Hilly erroneously believes that she would get some kind of disease by sharing a bathroom with an African American. She demands that Skeeter put the text of the Initiative in the Jackson Junior League newsletter. Skeeter puts her off, probably hoping that the issue will go away. When Hilly is finally adamant about it being printed, Skeeter sabotages it by “accidentally” mixing up the text with the request for donations for the clothing drive. Hilly ends up with dozens of toilets sitting in her front yard, to her horror. This act marks the end of what was once a close friendship.
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