“Love is a fallacy” (A reaction to Max Schulman’s “Love is fallacy”)

 
  Have you read the story written by Max Schulman entitled “Love is fallacy”? Do you find it very interesting? What are the characteristics shown in each character? What can you conclude or what lessons can you get from the story? I can now answer these questions because I have read the story. So, here’s my reaction about Max Schulman’s “Love is a fallacy”.

    I find the story very interesting because it leaves me with man questions. Just like, what happens to Petty Belows after he gave Polly Espy to the narrator? What is the connection between going steady of Poly with Petty and Petty’s raccoon coat? These are just questions from my mind after I read the story. For me, I think that the author titled the story “Love is a fallacy” because for the author, a love is a fallacy because he thought that love is an incorrect conception resulting to an incorrect reasoning. This is because many people think that love is always true but the author found out that there are some aspects which love is a fallacy. For example, the narrator thought that love is true and is present in each person, which is actually true, so that the thought that if he love someone, he can easily get the love that he want the girl to pay him in return. But, the narrator found out that the girl he loves has no feelings for him. So he thought that love must be a fallacy.

    Here’s my reaction to the characters of Max Schulman’s “Love is a fallacy.”



THE NARRATOR



    The narrator is a very good teacher, for me, because he taught Polly Espy many fallacies that involve logic. The reader of the story can also learn about many fallacies that involve logic in this story. Now, back in the narrator, he is very intelligent, his mind is powerful just like a dynamo, keen, perspicacious, as it was stated in the story. He loves Polly Espy because he knows that she has most of the characteristics of a perfect wife for a successful lawyer. Except for one characteristic - her intelligence is not so good like the narrator’s intelligence. The narrator wants to be a good lawyer someday. He would do anything just to get Polly from his college friend and at the same time his board mate - Petty Belows. He gave Petty a raccoon coat that he’s been longing to have. But, in exchange for his raccoon coat, the narrator wants Petty to give Polly to him. This only shows that he’ll do anything just to get the one he loves. After he taught Polly many fallacies, he ended up with sorrow because he found that Polly is getting to be steady with Petty Belows.


PETTY BELOWS



    He is a good friend of the narrator. He is also dating Polly Espy whom the narrator loves. He is brain has some kind of defective but also as good as the narrator. He wants a raccoon coat that he is been longing for. He is very determined to have a raccoon coat that he pleased the narrator to get one for him. He will give anything in exchange just to have a raccoon coat.


POLLY ESPY



    A very beautiful girl that Petty loves. She is fit for a successful lawyer according to the narrator. But, she is not that intelligent to be a lawyer’s wife. In spite of her defectiveness, the narrator loves her because for him, it is easy to make a beautiful dumb girl smart than to make an ugly smart girl beautiful. She didn’t notice the narrator’s love for her but instead, she thought that the narrator taught her many fallacies so that she’ll be aware of the fallacies around her. But the real intention of the narrator is to be loved by her.





    At the end of the story, you will find out that Polly is going to be steady with Petty because Petty has a raccoon coat. I really don’t understand what is the connection between going steady and a raccoon coat. Maybe, Petty asked Polly if she wants to get steady with him and maybe she answered that she will be steady with Petty if he get a raccoon coat. In general, all I can say is that it is a very unusual and very rare story of love. That’s my reaction about Max Schulman’s “Love is a fallacy”. I hope you will enjoy reading the story