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The short story, “Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot”, was written by Robert Olen Butler. Tom Petitjean and William Nelles state in their article, “As the title promises, the story revolves around a compulsively jealous husband.” This story is about a zany husband that is reincarnated as a parrot. Butler gives the parrot a voice in his short story and lets this character explain his emotions by saying, “I am sitting on a perch in a pet store in Houston and what I’m really thinking is . . . It’s you. And what’s happened is I’m looking at my wife” (715). Even though the husband has been reincarnated as a parrot, he still has strong feelings for his former wife and becomes very defensive about everything she does. He has a hard time excepting the fact that his former wife has found another lover. The parrot and the former wife struggle with jealousy and lack of communication; therefore, they are drawn in separate directions. As William Nelles writes, “Eventually he comes to love his wife more than he had when alive, to regret his own failures in their relationship, and even to feel pity for her latest love.” In the short story “Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot” the theme, that relationships are tough with jealousy and a lack of communication, is shown through the story’s character, tone and symbolism.