Because he never makes choices for himself. She's always making them for him.
The figure of speech here is personification.
Personification is a figure of speech where human qualities are attributed to inanimate objects, animals or phenomena. In the sentence: "<span>Maria’s favorite song wrapped its arms around her and rocked her to sleep", the song is personified as having the human ability to comfort and embrace a person, and soothe them enough to "rock" them to sleep. </span>
I don't think it can when you don't even know the meaning of the words