Conflict of The Secret Life of Bees

The two major conflicts in this novel are person vs. person and person vs. society. Lily and her father, T-Ray, never get along because he tells her all the time how her mother left her and didn't even care about her and that she killed/shot her. Lily did accidentally kill her mother but she doesn't believe that her mother ever would have left her. T-Ray is harsh and controlling and she can't take it anymore. So, Lily and Rosaleen (thier housekeeper/orchird worker) run away to Tiburon and end up having to lie to August, June, and May. Rosaleen escaped from jail in order to run and overall, the two of them are in trouble. In the end, Lily calls her father Daddy without thinking and they kind of have a moment. She still lives with the Boatwright sisters, but this time, with his permission and she forgives him. I think that the conflict is absolutely believable because things like this happened all the time in the south and in the sixties I'm sure.