Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert Olen Butler
- First Published: 1995
- Type of Plot: Fantasy
- Time of Work: The late twentieth century
- Setting: Houston, Texas
- Principal Characters: The narrator, His former wife, Her lover
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Husbands
- Locales: Houston, TX
The Story
The story revolves around a compulsively jealous husband, the unnamed first-person narrator of the story. It opens abruptly, with the narrator sitting on a perch in his cage in a pet store in Houston, having been reincarnated somehow as a yellow-nape Amazon parrot. One day, his former wife, accompanied by what he assumes must be her current lover, enters the store and is drawn to him. She buys him and takes him back to their former home, where she keeps him in a cage in the den. Despite his physical and, to a degree, psychological transformation, he is still jealous...
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