The author of "Night Waitress" is female so she knows what a woman thinks and hopes for which is what the waitress in the poem does. She contemplates thoughts and hopes for better things than this job that is not too enjoyable. The text is also narrated by the woman being a waitress in this gloomy restaurant. The woman plays the role of the server to the men in the cafe where she works at she gets attention from the men so her role is an attractive woman kind of stuck working the night shift who longs to get out of her position she is in. The female in the story is the protagonist because the story really revolves around visions and thoughts she keeps to herself. A stereotype is presented when the woman mentions her mother about her mother washing the floor under the "Black Madonna" about praying to her god of sorrows and visions. Also when the men all stare at her "as if they'd never had mothers" a stereotype of men always staring a woman down like dogs as soon as a woman enters the room. Attitudes towards woman from men are typical, such as them staring at her and the man who plays jukebox music to attract women. To me it is as if the men look down on the waitress as her being the exhibit in a zoo or something.