For Skeeter, completing the manuscript with Aibileen and Minny is both enlightening and liberating. She realizes just what the maids go through on a daily basis, and even mirrors their mask of contentment on several occasions in the novel. For Stuart she is docile and shy, but when Hilly finds literature that she considers highly liberal reading, Skeeter must cower and lie, in order to convince Hilly that what she’s doing is harmless.
As the dutiful daughter, Skeeter takes her mother’s concern for her lack of a romantic interest to heart. Her mother, blunt as ever, even questions Skeeter on whether she prefers women to men.
In the end, Skeeter’s journey culminates in seeing everyone as they truly are. Through Skeeter’s eyes, Aibileen and Minny are less of a mystery and more sympathetic. Their color and station in life is no barrier to her friendship and business relationship with them.