Cleo is portrayed as being so stoic that she comes off as a one dimensional stereotype of the idea of the noble suffering servant. I think the central characters stoicism (being calm and almost without any emotion. When you're stoic, not showing whatever she feels and accept whatever is happening) illustrates the class differences between her and the middle class family she works for. There are two women who are central to the story. The middle class mother, employer, and the lower class maid, employee. Both characters are wronged terribly by thoughtless careless men. Both suffer. The mother…