The Help | Gender Inequality

Question 1

Biological determinism quotes

Answer 1

“So I set on the toilet and it slipped out. Like it wanted out of me.”
“What’s he going to do with me?”
“Will you fish my dead baby out of that toilet bowl.”
“I mean kids is the only thing worth living for”
“Hold onto this one”
“Blood in the toilet bowl”
“Blood has soaked through the seat of her nightgown”

Question 2

Southern Belle quotes

Answer 2

“I can’t believe Johnny married a girl so tacky like she is”
“White trash”
“Nice white ladies don’t go around barefoot”
“I bristle hearing a white lady be so friendly”
Bottom of 109 - “A cream will not… So this is all she has left to fix, my hair”
“Bosoms are for bedrooms and breastfeeding. Not for occasions with dignity”
“Hilly darling. No young husband wants to come home and see this. Look at your hair.”

Question 3

Consequences of nonconformity / isolation quotes

Answer 3

“She could help with the benefit this year” / “Not that bad we don’t”
“out in the country”
“Could you tell her Celia Foote called again? I left her a message a few days back…”
“Your clothes, your hair, your boobies in the size nothing sweaters”
“But as Celia comes toward her, Hilly heads off into the crowd”
“Celia almost makes it to Hilly this time, only to have Hilly slip behind the podium table”

Question 4

Gender inequality context

Answer 4

Large cultural divide in terms of perception of women + their roles, although the novel coincides with second wave of feminism, the south was notoriously slower to adapt to this progression, women still expected to adhere to domestic stereotypes and Southern Belle stereotype

Question 5

Key points gender inequality essay

Answer 5

Southern Belle
Biological determinism
Consequences of nonconformity / isolation