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- Elaine Stein A senior editor at Harper & Row with whom Skeeter corresponds via the mail and telephone. Elaine sympathizes with Skeeter, as she too once desired to enter the working world without any relevant experience. Elaine is helpful to Skeeter, though she does not hesitate to criticize Skeeter’s half-baked ideas.
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It is this topic that Skeeter arrives at when Elaine Stein recommends she write about something that disturbs her. While interviewing the maids, Skeeter begins to understand more fully the racism that is deeply entrenched in her family, her friends, and society as a whole.
Elaine Stein is the confident New York City book agent who inspires Skeeter to write her book about the maids. Elaine’s high-power career in New York lets Skeeter see that there are opportunities open to women other than becoming a wife, mother, and homemaker.
Elaine Stein is the literary agent who publishes The Help and who connects Skeeter with a job in the city. She's definitely one of the good guys.
Elaine Stein is the literary agent who publishes The Help and who connects Skeeter with a job in the city. She's definitely one of the good guys.
Elaine Stein. Elaine is an editor for Harper & Row Publishing and the person who gives Skeeter the inspiration to write her book about the maids. Elaine is a no-nonsense woman who has been in the publishing business for many years. She is not soft-spoken or gentle, but in her own rough way she encourages Skeeter to push forward with her work.
When her editor, Elaine Stein, insists that Skeeter include Constantine's story in Help, Aibileen finally tells her the truth – that Skeeter's mother fired Constantine after a confrontation with Constantine's daughter, Lulabelle, whom Constantine gave up for adoption when she was four years old. This, of course, doesn't go into the book.
