Summary of Max Schulman's "Love Is A Fallacy"
A SUMMARY OF MAX SCHULMAN’S “LOVE IS A FALLACY ”
Max Schulman’s “Love is a fallacy” is about a story of so much stupidity. It is a story of how an amazingly intelligent young man deceived his dumb roommate in order to get and own the girl(who’s very beautiful but quite empty-headed as well)he wanted,but only to get frustrated and unsuccessful in the end.
Petey Bellows (intelligent young man's stupid roommate) wanted a raccoon coat so as to be one of the “Big Men” on Campus (meaning, one who’s “in”). The the intelligent young man, remembered that his dad had a raccoon coat at home. He made a suggestion to his roommate, his father’s raccoon coat in exchange for Petey’s current date, Polly Espy. The intelligent young man wanted Polly as his girlfriend, and eventually his wife.
Polly is almost perfect, beautiful and gracious. She has a very polished behavior, an ease of bearing, with poise that clearly indicates the best of breeding. Her table manners are superb and exquisite. He had seen her at the Kozy Kampus Korner eating the specialty of the house—a sandwich that contained scraps of pot roast , gravy, chopped nuts and a dipper of sauerkraut—without even getting her fingers moist or wet. But!!There’s a big but.Looks can be decieving, as they say it. She is not intelligent, not even close. However, the narrator is determined to get the girl and planned to teach her some logics to slarten her or at least half of his knowledge.
Wise as he was, he eventually got Petey‘s girl, Polly in exchange for his father's raccoon coat. He taught the girl some logic – i.e. Poisoning the Well, Contradictory Premises, Post Hoc, Ad Misericordiam, Hypothesis Contrary to Fact, and Dicto Simpliciter. The girl was, at least, interested about this “stuffs”.At the end of the sessions,he told the girl that he loved her very much that he'll do anything and asked her to go steady with him. The girl said no since she had already promised to go steady with Petey Bellows. The intelligent young man went in a fit of rage and began blabbing criticizing Petey. Polly surprisingly applied his teachings about logic to counteract his criticisms. This really got him outraged, and demanded an explanation of why she wanted to go steady with “dumb, stupid, zany" Petey. Surprisingly, Polly answered, “Of course, he’s got a raccoon coat!” (Expectedly she would approach his question with a stupid answer.)
Max Schulman’s “Love is a fallacy” is about a story of so much stupidity. It is a story of how an amazingly intelligent young man deceived his dumb roommate in order to get and own the girl(who’s very beautiful but quite empty-headed as well)he wanted,but only to get frustrated and unsuccessful in the end.
Petey Bellows (intelligent young man's stupid roommate) wanted a raccoon coat so as to be one of the “Big Men” on Campus (meaning, one who’s “in”). The the intelligent young man, remembered that his dad had a raccoon coat at home. He made a suggestion to his roommate, his father’s raccoon coat in exchange for Petey’s current date, Polly Espy. The intelligent young man wanted Polly as his girlfriend, and eventually his wife.
Polly is almost perfect, beautiful and gracious. She has a very polished behavior, an ease of bearing, with poise that clearly indicates the best of breeding. Her table manners are superb and exquisite. He had seen her at the Kozy Kampus Korner eating the specialty of the house—a sandwich that contained scraps of pot roast , gravy, chopped nuts and a dipper of sauerkraut—without even getting her fingers moist or wet. But!!There’s a big but.Looks can be decieving, as they say it. She is not intelligent, not even close. However, the narrator is determined to get the girl and planned to teach her some logics to slarten her or at least half of his knowledge.
Wise as he was, he eventually got Petey‘s girl, Polly in exchange for his father's raccoon coat. He taught the girl some logic – i.e. Poisoning the Well, Contradictory Premises, Post Hoc, Ad Misericordiam, Hypothesis Contrary to Fact, and Dicto Simpliciter. The girl was, at least, interested about this “stuffs”.At the end of the sessions,he told the girl that he loved her very much that he'll do anything and asked her to go steady with him. The girl said no since she had already promised to go steady with Petey Bellows. The intelligent young man went in a fit of rage and began blabbing criticizing Petey. Polly surprisingly applied his teachings about logic to counteract his criticisms. This really got him outraged, and demanded an explanation of why she wanted to go steady with “dumb, stupid, zany" Petey. Surprisingly, Polly answered, “Of course, he’s got a raccoon coat!” (Expectedly she would approach his question with a stupid answer.)
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