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Jealous Husband Returns In Form Of Parrot Analysis
As Butler writes, "Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot", he illustrates the cause and effect of cowardly behavior. Here Butler writes of a jealous husband fearing to lose 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). After his death, the husband has a supernatural experience and returns in the form of a parrot. Feeling unworthy, he is the cause of his death once again as he throws himself repeatedly against the window. The husband shows how this type of behavior is created by yielding toward outraged of emotions, combined with a reluctance to face life's
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