So the moral of this chapter is... choose your own values?
A) Choose individuality (mystery bird man)
B) Choose conformity (wife)
In real life you can choose a fraction of both A and B, you don't have to choose absolutes.
Anyways, the man is very
romantic*.
Romantic as in
- of, characterized by, or suggestive of an idealized view of reality.
- relating to or denoting the artistic and literary movement of romanticism.
and not
- conducive to or characterized by the expression of love.
dictionary by Oxford Languages