Oliver has a midlife crisis and decides to get married to himself. What do you think Oliver discovers with his decision? Was it a well taken decision?
In The Man that Married Himself, Oliver takes the decision to marry himself because of his unfortunate situation with women. In the journey of getting to know himself, he starts to see how difficult and lonely it is to survive on your own. He goes through a phase of wanting a family but he knows he cannot have that with himself so he decides to file for a divorce. Oliver decides to go for adultery as the best option to get the authorization for the divorce. He then finds a Malaysian girl who he said was very easy to seduce and commits the fault.
After all of that odyssey, Oliver gets married to the woman of his life and ironically his neighbors are the Bishop and his new wife, the poor white poodle that was always mentioned whenever the Bishop appeared on scene. With all of this, Oliver discovers some truths about life and love with oneself. At the end of the story Oliver asks himself if the readers of his new autobiography would be asking themselves this questions: "Am I easy to live with? If I had to live with me, could I do it?" I always ask myself those questions and wonder the same.
In conclusion, even though Oliver made what for me was a ridiculous decision of marrying himself, he did learned a lot through it. He valued himself a lot more and he valued the people surrounding him even more. He knew what his persona was capable of handling alone and what it could not. With that experience he was able to better himself and live happily ever after with his new partner in life.
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