The Secret Life of Bees

why does lilly resent june's attitude towards her

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August says that June is resentful of the white people, “you wouldn’t catch her keeping house for white people. She went to work at a colored funeral home, dressing the bodies and doing their hair." June feels Lilly represents her white oppressors simply because she is white.