Jealous Husband Returns In Form Of Parrot

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In writing the short story, "Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot", Butler illustrates the cause and effect of cowardly behavior. In this story, a jealous husband fears losing his beloved wife due to confronting her of her disloyalty to their marriage. As a result of his fear, he cowardly approaches the situation by climbing a "big tree in the back of [her lover 's] house" which result to his death (2). He returns in the form of a parrot only to die once again by taking the coward way out. The husband shows how this type of behavior is created by yielding toward controllable emotions, combined with a reluctance to face life 's problems. However, the effect of his behavior is more depressing because it became the ultimate demise of a