Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert Olen Butler
- First Published: 1995
- Type of Work: Short story
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Husbands, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Wives, Love or romance, Twentieth century, Escapes, Communication, Jealousy, envy, or resentment, Obsession, Adultery, Revenge, Reincarnation, Texas
- Locales: Houston, TX
As the title promises, the story revolves around a compulsively jealous husband, who is, as the story opens, sitting on a perch in a cage in a pet store in Houston, reincarnated somehow as a parrot. The reincarnation of the human narrator's consciousness into the animal body is established as the opening premise with the very title and is never explained. However, once Butler makes this stipulation, the story proceeds realistically. Rather than simply imagining a person in a parrot suit, Butler imagines the limitations of the parrot's brain and nervous system. When his former wife,...
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