Jealous Husband Returns In Form Of Parrot Summary

Love is first literal then converted into a metaphor through marriage. Love begins as literally loving someone when sharing experiences because of love that is contained. Profound love then changes to a metaphor; it asks why experiences with someone they love are meant to happen, the purpose to marry someone by finding deeper love to know how attached a person’s love is. Robert Olen Butler wanted us to understand when we interpret ideas as a metaphor, we understand why things are meant to happen and why is it meaningful to protect it. As we read this short story Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot by Robert Olen Butler, as a metaphorical perspective like the author’s we see that reincarnation is another story, perhaps, the story the author …show more content…
Reincarnation reveals why the author wrote his story, why he chose the concepts of the “Yellow-nape Amazon” parrot, to convey the narrator’s version of the truth, and what the narrator’s wife truly resembled. Jealousy was not the major issue that the author had to face, neither was karma to reveal the hidden secrets from his wife. The major issue was a goal that the narrator used. His goal was the advantage the narrator’s wife used when the narrator reincarnated into a “parrot”. To save his marriage, it was not that the narrator did not do anything for his relationship—by locking himself inside his bathroom—but it was when the narrator did something for his marriage. What the narrator learned is the importance to find why the narrator’s marriage was never meant to be as a love story that tells the true way to leave what was difficult to let go. In the short story ‘Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot’ by Robert Olen Butler, the author wanted his readers to understand his concepts of reincarnation as an intellectual story to convey the truth the author kept behind his