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Aibileen's Duties And The Bridge Party In The House Of Women, By Virginia Bobeth
1. Aibileen’s duties and the bridge party in the house of Elizabeth (1).
2. Aibileen comforts Mae Mobley after the scandal between her parents about the toilet (2).
3. Minny informs Aibileen that Ms. Hilly fired her, and the call of Ms. Celia Foote (2).
4. Minnie is hired as a maid from Mrs. Celia Foote without the knowledge of Mr. Foote (3).
5. The first week of Minny as a maid in the house of Ms. Foote and her fears (4).
6. Eugenia Phelan (“Skeeter”) returns at home as a graduate to look for a job and finds out that Constantine left her family forever (5).
7. Skeeter receives a rejection letter from Mrs. Stein, then she is hired as a journalist in the local “Jackson Journal”, and she understands that her mother fired Constantine (6).
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Mrs. Leefolt doesn’t want to speak to Skeeter and she visits Hilly, where Skeeter argues with Hilly at her swimming pool (15).
26. Aibileen is on the meeting with other black people at the local church, and Jul May thinks about the possibility to share her stories with Skeeter (16).
27. Minnie doesn’t want to teach Ms. Celia Foote how to play bridge, although Ms. Celia wants to join to Ms. Hilly’s club but unsuccessfully (17).
28. Minnie’s motifs to share her stories with Skeeter and her suspicion about Celia, then Ms. Celia fired Minny, but Aibileen encourages Minny to apologize to her (17).
29. Minny finds Ms. Celia on the floor of the bathroom, then the doctor visits her because of her spontaneous abortion (18).
30. Stuart invites Skeeter and her parents to meet his parents (19).
31. The other black maids want to tell their own stories to Skeeter , because of their friend Jull May who is arrested because of Hilly (19).
32. Skeeter begins her interviews with the other maids (19).
33. Skeeter and her parents visit Stuart’s family at a special dinner , where Stuart comes later (20)
34. Skeeter wants from Stuart to tell her more about his last relationship, then he wants a break from her for a while (20).
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