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Analyzing Allen In The Short Story 'Pancakes' By Joan Bauer

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Throughout the short story “Pancakes” the author, Joan Bauer, uses a variety of literary devices to characterize Allen as ignorant yet compassionate. The author accomplishes this through foil, simile, and situational irony. The two contradicting personalities of Jill and Allen create a foil which allows the reader to understand that Jill is everything that Allen is not which is most likely the reason they separated. In the short story, Jill is directly characterized as a perfectionist “‘ rabid perfectionism,”’(Bauer 210) in contrast, Allen is characterized as lazy due to the foil in the story. The foil between the ex-lovers creates tension and suspense throughout the story. In addition, the author uses a simile to convey Allen as ignorant,
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