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“After I have read the story, “Love Is a Fallacy” by Max Schulman, I was really amazed! At first, I was some kind of a confused because there were some terms that I could not fully understand but because of the help of my beloved classmates, I have already understood some of them. As what I have observed, the main character there was a little bit boastful. I find him too much PROUD of HIMSELF. I know that he’s very intelligent but he must not boast it to everyone that he is like that or what so ever. Instead of having a boastful trait, he could probably have the trait which almost all people needs, ‘HUMILITY’”.
The story was simple though a touch of basic logic makes it complex. The situations are quite unique and the way the author thinks in formulating this short story involves association in everyday life and critical thinking. Thus, combined in the realization between what has been learned and what we had believed in. It has thought the reader several lesson to reflect and to take into account the facts and fallacies of life and love.
Let us first focus on things that we see and what we do not. The guy in the story was really, really smart despite of his young age (and this becomes one of his weaknesses in life). Yes, intellect he is . He lives his life with extreme preciseness and more. He believes he has the power to control things his way. He’s confident enough that his plan would work out well and that he could reap the fruits of his labor afterwards. He looks out the world considering only by physical things. He sees but neglect what is rather felt. He considered Polly as a fine poised and beautiful woman, but he underestimated her way of thinking. He taught Polly things he learned academically, hoping they would make her wise. He thought that if Polly would learn these, she would become perfect in his qualifications. But just as everything seemed to go his way, something went wrong. Polly had learned to think critically and therefore learns to become rational by the grounds of worldly thinking. His student has learned her lessons very well and by that, she becomes his nightmare. As if she had held him by the throat. She no longer believes in him when he said he loved her. She stresses out that what he felt for her isn’t reasonable enough. So she went back to Petey. Why? It’s because Petey has a raccoon. Isn’t that stupid?
For me, we should learn to separate love from any other things. Love is something that must be felt and not by physical. We should not place love with those things that need reasons for loving somebody requires no explanation. Yes, indeed no explanation because if you’ll try to explain why you loved that certain person, that love you felt can no longer be called love anymore, it’s somehow may be called an admiration, right?

"Love Is A Fallacy" Summary 2

The narrator talked with Petey, his roommate, in the university dormitory. Petey was having a crush with this particular girl named Polly Espy. He asked Petey if he was in love with Polly but Petey just said that he wasn't in love with her but he thinks that she is a keen kid. Since Petey liked a raccoon coat, and the narrator has this raccoon coat which he can still get after the weekends because it is still in his house.The Stutz Bearcoat of the narrator’s father is ready to be given to him he just go with the deal. And the deal is let Petey allow the narrator to have a date with Polly. Since Petey liked the raccoon coat, he just went with the deal.

Now the narrator had his first date with Polly the next evening. He wanted to find out just how much work he had to do to get her mind up to the standard required. Her reaction after they will leave the restaurant, theater and after she bade goodnight.They again went to another date the next night. When they were already in the restaurant, the narrator open a topic about logic and fallacies. The fallacy of Dicto Simpliciter, Hasty Generalization, Eula Becker, Contradicctory Premisses, Ad Misericordian,Hypothesis Contrary and the Poisoning the Well.Polly didn't not quite understand the fallacies. But the only thing that she got from the test was the Poisoning the Well.Five nights of conversing with Polly but for the narrator, it was worth it. He made a logician out of her and taught her to think. Not knowing, was in a date with him,a serious date, not only for conversing and chatting. In short, the narrator was in love with Polly.But because of what he taught her, she thinks that everything he says is a fallacy. Polly would not go steady with the narrator but instead with Petey Bellows. All the reason is that Petey has a raccoon