The Help
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Did I miss something?
PeachyTO
Aug 17, 2011 12:43PM
I've finished the book, and actually quite enjoyed it. As I often do upon completion, I am pondering any parts of the book that may still be left unanswered. For The Help I find myself wondering why Aibeleen wasn't allowed to go into the kitchen at Mrs. Leefolt's (sp?) house when she came to work that morning when Mr. Leefolt was home from work, and as a result she was left wondering around the house aimlessly. It was mentioned that Mrs. Leefolt was baking some special kind of cake/pie, but that was about it. At the time I had visions of Mrs. Leefolt re-enacting her own Terrible Awful, but this part of the story never seemed to go anywhere. Did I miss something, or am I reading into this too much?
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It has been awhile since I read this book, so was it something to do with her poisoning him or something? It is unclear what the storyline was.
Mrs. Leefolt said Aibee couldn't handle the recipe because it was too sophisticated I'm pretty sure. Mrs. Leefolt got the recipe from a magazine and just didn't want Aibee in the kitchen.
nothing about poison i dont think.... she was just insinuating that Aibeleen Was not "smart enough" or "capable" of handling such a "sophisticated" recipe.
I agree, I think she thought Aibee wouldn't be able to make the recipe and wasn't she making a cake for her daughters birthday?
It never said anything more, that she just wanted to make the cake herself because she got it out of a gourmet magazine. I think she was trying to put her down because she didn't think she could do it. I took it as a put down anyways saying that she couldn't do it sense it was a gourmet recipe.
** I was wondering where that was going, but it didn't lead to anything else that is why I took it that way.
** I was wondering where that was going, but it didn't lead to anything else that is why I took it that way.
Just saw that movie. I left the theatre feeling like I had a cold sore on my top lip.
I did not think it was important enough to ponder. Mrs. Leefolt was just a strange person to start with and anything she did was not unusual.
I agree that it was because she imagined Aibee wouldn't be able to handle it (perhaps even to read the recipe?). I also presumed that it was going to be a horrendous failure and Elizabeth was going to look like a fool.
I also think Elizabeth wanted to deprive Aibee of doing something she enjoyed. There was also that chocolate vs strawberry thing, when Aibee knew Baby Girl would prefer strawberry, and sure enough more strawberry had been eaten than chocolate.
Elizabeth was intimidated, and trying to be in charge.
I also think Elizabeth wanted to deprive Aibee of doing something she enjoyed. There was also that chocolate vs strawberry thing, when Aibee knew Baby Girl would prefer strawberry, and sure enough more strawberry had been eaten than chocolate.
Elizabeth was intimidated, and trying to be in charge.
I think that Mrs Leefolt was jealous of Aibeleen's relationship with May Mobley and thought if she made the cake herself without Aibeleen's help and May Mobley liked it better it would some how, in her mind anyway, show that her daughter loved her better than she loved Aibeleen. She might have intimated to her husband that Aibeleen couldn't handle the difficult recipe but in her heart she knew that Aibeleen could have done it easily.
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