Skeeter Phelan

Eugenia Phelan, more commonly known as Skeeter, is a main character of The Help. She is portrayed by Emma Stone.

Skeeter is a wide-eyed and naïve graduate from Ole' Miss who has ambitions of becoming a great novelist. Much to the dismay of her traditional mother and friends who believe that marriage and children should be the eleventh commandment.

As a matter of fact, Skeeter could really care less about marriage, seeing as men have never noticed her and she's tired of trying to get them to. Instead Skeeter would rather write the next great American novel, it's just her idea is a little... controversial.

When a well respected editor in New York asks Skeeter to submit a story that is based on what she herself may find troubling when everyone else doesn't, Skeeter does the unexpected and decides to write a book based on the colored maids in Jackson, Mississippi. An idea that could get her arrested or even killed if found out.

At first, Skeeter is naïve about the rules of segregation and doesn't understand the risk she's taking. Then after studying the segregation laws of Jackson (which is illegal in its itself) Skeeter now realizes that it's more than writing a book and getting a job, but a chance to do what's right even when she might lose everything she has and everything she's worked for. When she enlists the help of maids, Aibileen Clark and Minny Jackson, Skeeter's eyes are opened to the truths and secrets that are revealed about the maid's employers of Jackson, many of them her own friends. When Skeeter finishes the book she now sees life in a different way. She has lost her friends, her boyfriend and her social standing in Jackson, but has become a stronger woman due to the writing of "The Help" and above all has finally let the truth be heard.