The Wicked Stepmother serves as an antagonistic figure residing with her biological daughters, Wilhelmina and Fortella, alongside Cinderella. She enforces Cinderella's subservience through exhaustive domestic labor assignments while exempting her own daughters. This character permits her daughters to harass Cinderella, including deliberate acts like overturning water and ash buckets onto cleaned floors, while endorsing such behavior through dismissive or critical remarks. Her primary objective focuses on advancing her daughters' social prospects, exemplified by compelling Cinderella to design and sew elaborate royal ball gowns for them. She employs manipulation, falsely promising Cinderella ball attendance contingent on completing chores and securing attire, while ensuring these conditions remain unfulfillable. Her explicit motivations center solely on securing advantageous marriages for her daughters, lacking distinct physical description or personal history beyond this goal. Her antagonism operates through psychological manipulation and enforced servitude, avoiding physical violence. The narrative resolution forces her and her daughters into assuming Cinderella's former household duties, concluding her role without further development or background exploration.