Complicated In The Story 'Pancakes' By Joan Bauer

In the story “Pancakes,” the author, Joan Bauer, creates an irritated tone. Irritated is defined as showing or feeling slight anger or annoyance. First of all, in the exposition of the story, the protagonist wakes up and finds an article about being a perfectionist on her mirror. Instantly she was annoyed because a month before her boyfriend had accused her of being a perfectionist (194). By including this, the author is able to convey that Jill had repeatedly been accused in some way of being a perfectionist and this had begun to pique and annoy her. Later into the story, during the rising action, a customer didn't like the size of her pancakes and sent them back, so Jill goes to Andy and snarls, “Chocolate silver dollars for the brat on eight.