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Answer:
Skeeter is suspicious of the way Hilly has arranged the names, as if the point of them getting together were for William and Stuart to meet. She knows she's being paranoid, especially after being stopped by the police while crossing over the bridge to the colored section of town.
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I looked it up and a book came up so maybe your talking about this?
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Blared and jarring both have a negative connotation meaning shrill is your best bet
I think it's because she had seen her race discriminated against. She feels like nothing will change and maybe she lost hope because the world is ugly and it's never going to change