Pancakes By Joan Bauer Analysis

To be Pancakes or Not to Be
Always Keep expectations highest, and never let standards down. This is a usual comment made by a motivational speaker. Nobody would want to disagree with them, neither Jill from “Pancakes” by Joan Bauer. In this story, refusing to accept any standard short of perfection is a great way to describe Jill. Jill can't help being the perfectionist she is, so expecting everything to be perfect will back fire at her in the long run. She will encounter them in forms of conflicts externally and internally such as her personal relationship. One of the major The themes of Pancakes was, do not keep standards too high.
Jills perfectionism costs Jill her relationship with allen Fienman. Even after Allen temporarily left her just so she could learn a lesson and fix herself. After that, Jill

This is reality that Jill still does not want to accept. Her world comprises of just complete organization and she's at a point where mistakes are just not acceptable anymore. “The people were looking at me like i was there breakfast savior, like i could single handedly make sure they were all happy and fed. And i was ashamed i couldn't do it” the point made is just to make sure there is no shame in making mistakes. The more people that came in, the less organized she would become. People could be a symbol for distraction because the more people coming, the more distracted she would become. Its great to make them as long as you learn from them.

Jill still wouldn't have learned anything by the end of the story due to the heavily perfectionist that lay inside her. Keeping standards to a height is perfectly fine but too high would be fatal in unpredictable ways, like Jill's relationship situation with Allen. Even a “rabid” perfectionist such as Jill would not have overcome pancake rush our, mistakes could happen and are taken as something negative. But in sometimes that is not the case and have to give ourselves another