The short story Jealous Husband Returns In Form of Parrot by Robert Olen Butler emphasizes how having a cheating spouse can lead you into living a regretful and jealous afterlife. In the story, the husband dies and returns to life as a parrot, only to see that his wife still has the same ways. The husband’s possessiveness resorts from his wife being unfaithful to him. Therefore, his behavior led him to be emotionally damaged and consider what could have been.
An important realization was that the husband’s jealousy went through the roof which led him to have negative thoughts about himself. He goes as far to say, “I felt like a damn fool whenever I actually said something about this kind of feeling and she looked at me as though she could
