“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?
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