Aibileen’s character in “The Help” The movie “The Help” based on a novel offers a fascinating study of the intersections of race, gender, and class . At the heart of this narrative is Aibileen Clark, a Black domestic worker whose experiences and growth reflect those of nearly all African American women of this period. Aibileen and her extraordinary perseverance, empathy, fortitude becoming a driver for activism represent the layered struggles of systemic racism. Aibileen is a middle-aged women employed as a domestic worker. Her job is maintaining the household and serving as the caretaker. The story introduces Aibileen as gentle and nurturing, with instinct that almost immediately send her taking on a maternal role which the biological parents seamlessly disregards. Aibileen is representative of the employees engaged black woman who spent years laboring in the white families’ homes, giving utmost domestic care when not being respected or considered equal to their wh...