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Summary Of Jealous Husband Returns In Form Of Parrot
In Robert Butler’s short story “Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot” Butler shows how difficult it is to relate to someone you love in a different form of an animal. Butler earned his degrees at Northwestern University and at the University of Iowa. He also published ten novels and five short stories. Readers often get different sides or views of a character or characters and establishes their point of them. Using the critical strategy, reader response, and the literary element, point of view, this story reaches far more understanding as you continue to read this story. The narrator in this story is referring to himself as a husband in a parrot from. He is looking at his wife with such grace that she might choose him and take him home
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