Sofia | Mayor/His Wife

Exposition: While the mayor and his wife thought that Sofia would be honored that they were asking her to be their made, Sofia felt disrespected and hated them for it.
Rising Action: The anger builds up inside Sofia as the mayor and his wife keep talking and she eventually lets it out by punching the mayor.
Climax: Inevitably, Sofia ends up in jail where they strip her of her spirit and dignity.
Solution: Sofia ends up working for the mayor and his wife and builds somewhat of a relationship with the mayor's wife.

Thanks to the mayor and his wife's offer of having Sofia be their maid, Sofia ended up in jail, where her spirit was broken and her pride and dignity were taken away. She's broken to the point where she hardly knows who she is anymore, let alone the people around her. 

"When I see Sofia I don't know why she still alive. They crack her skill, they crack her ribs. They tear her nose loose on one side. They blind her in one eye. She swole from head to foot. Her tongue the size of my arm, it stick out tween her teef like a piece of rubber. She can't talk. And she just about the color of a eggplant (87)."

This relationship holds great significance to the story because it was because of the mayor and his wife that Sofia underwent her downfall. Before their indecent where Sofia punched the mayor, Sofia was a strong spirited woman with a lot of pride and dignity. It was from this relationship that we learn how black people and white people interacted at the time and what black people really thought of the white people that they worked for. The mayor's wife is always thinking that she's so kind to Sofia when she really isn't, but Sofia's just too broken to say anything about it. This relationship and the incident with Sofia and the mayor affected all of the important people in Sofia's life. One being Celie, who visited Sofia in jail once and saw how broken she was and to have Sofia say that she was just like Celie made Celie open her eyes to the fact that she was a broken women too.