I don't know if they're saying that. The plot has just as many devices as the man does and they allow you to make what you will out of the whole thing. I think that the angel is inside himself and the bird, even the vine, and only revealed itself to save him from his own trappings, to show him the beauty of nature/god. When he interrupts, and tries to have his way with her, she changes back into the bird and he is given one last chance to set her free but instead chooses to selfishly lock her up. Which ends up tormenting him for the rest of his days because he can't enjoy it when it's all locked up. By the way, I mean nature/god in the sense that Spinoza meant, a god that does not rule over the universe by providence, but a god which itself is the deterministic system of which everything in nature is a part, a god that is nature and has no personality.
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