Who are the main characters in The Help? Please describe in detail.

The cast of characters
in  is on the large side, however the list of central characters consists
of just four characters. These are the characters that drive the action of the novel.

Miss Skeeter Phelan is the character narrating a majority of the story. She is college
educated, Caucasian, and an aspiring journalist. Though she begins the story as an insider and
friend to Hilly Holbrook, Skeeter becomes an outcast because of her social views and her
unwillingness to go along with Hilly on her separate restroom initiative.

Aibileen is a maid and a writer who agrees to help Skeeter write a book of stories of
colored maids and their experiences working for white families. Aibileen narrates sections
of The Help and functions as a mediator between Miss Skeeter and the other
maids who agree to participate in the book project. Aibileen is a considerate caretaker of
children, though her own son has died. 

Minny is another maid. She speaks her
mind more freely than any other character, with the possible exception of Miss Hilly. Minny
experiences a great deal of hardship over the course of the novel, while the other major
characters relate important events that take place outside the time context of the novel. This
makes Minny the most dynamic character in the book, in a position not only to change herself but
to change others. 

Hilly Holbrook is theof The Help.
Once the best friend to Miss Skeeter, Hilly runs rampant over her former friend and any one else
who would dare to get in her way. She is a bigoted and brattish woman. Though she truly loves
her children, she cannot see her way to a compassion that extends beyond her own narrow
interests.