Major Characters from The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan, Ole Miss grad and would-be writer

Charlotte, her demanding, overbearing mama

Carlton Phelan, Skeeter’s father owns a cotton farm

Carlton Phelan (Jr.?), Skeeter’s brother, attends LSU Law School

Aibileen Clark, first narrator who works as maid and nanny for the Leefolts

Treelore Clark, her deceased son who had the idea

to write about working for a white employer

Clyde, Aibileen’s missing husband

Minny Jackson, the “sassy” narrator who works for Hilly, then Celia

Leroy ,Minny’s abusive husband

Sugar and Kindra, two of Minny’s five children

Hilly Holbrook, Junior League President and childhood friend of Skeeter and Elizabeth

William, Hilly's husband

Celia Foote, newcomer and Minny’s boss

Johnny Foote, Celia’s husband and ex-boyfriend of Hilly

Elizabeth Leefolt, Raleigh’s wife, mother of Mae Mobley and “Li’l Man” (Ross)

Constantine Banks, Skeeter’s beloved childhood maid

Lullabelle, near white-looking daughter of Constantine

Elaine Stein, “Missus Stein,” a Harper & Row editor

Yule Mae Crookle, Hilly’s college-educated maid who goes to jail

Senator “Stoolie” Whitworth

Stuart Whitworth, Senator’s son and short term fiancé of Skeeter’s

Pascagoula, new maid of the Phelans

Gretchen, younger maid who tells off Skeeter and Aibileen

Reverend Johnson, minister at church Aibileen, Minny and other maids attend

Mister Golden, newspaper man who hires Skeeter to do Miss Myrna

Many additional characters