Def.- incensed or engraded; seeming to threaten.
Syn.- furious, incensed, infuriated, irate, outraged, raging, wrathful, enraged
"Well, what do you want? What the hell do you want from me? What the hell do you all want from me?"
"I don't know what the others want. I just want something i don't have."
"I've done my best," I said.
"No, you have not," she said. "In Bed for a few moments is not enough."
"Is that all I've ever given you? Is that all?"
"What else? Any consideration?"
I got up from the table. I jerked the towel from my head and slammed it down on my plate.
"You can have your goddamn red beans and rice and towel and everything. Damn this shit."
- A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest J. Gaines
The tone expressed in this passage is that of an angry one. This can be distinguished by the words the author has chosen to enact the scene. In the phrase, "What the hell do you want from me? What the hell do you all want from me?" the author uses the word "hell" to express the character's - Grant Wiggins- anger and frustration, since "hell" is associated with all negative emotions, feelings, and actions. What can be seen as even worse is Wiggins's use of the profane word, "goddamn." Grant is so angry right now that he would even resort to taking God's name in vain. Finally, the author places in violent verbs to express anger and frustration, such as "jerked" and "slammed."