Though she still has her family’s money, she has left behind her previous “high society” way of living that she was used to for the majority of her life. She has been shunned by her once friends, to the point where she compared herself to Boo Radley in To Kill a Mockingbird. At the very end of the book, she has been offered a job at Harper’s Magazine in New York as a copy editor’s assistant. This is a job that she had been dreaming of for the longest time, however, she only accepted it after Minny talked her into taking it, because she did not want to leave her friends alone to fend for themselves in the mess that her book had made in Jackson, Mississippi. We can see Skeeter’s will to stay for her friends when she tells Aibileen and Minny “I can’t take it… I can’t leave right now, right when things are getting bad. I’m not going to leave you in this mess” (Stockett 498). Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan is my favorite character from the book, The Help, because of how much she had grown in the book. She started as someone hidden in her friend’s shadow, to a strong and determined person who would not back down when people told her she was wrong