A story written in 1951 by Max Schulman called Love is a Fallacy. It is about a young college student majoring in law who is full of himself. He is smart, good looking, and has the world figured out. He thinks that once he graduates he must have a beautiful, refine women at his side who is also very intellectual for him to be a great lawyer because all the successful lawyers he sees has this winning formula. So he works a deal out with his roommate to start seeing a girl they both like, she is easy on the eyes, has a grace about her, but lacks intellect from which the law student could see. They start seeing each other on a series of dates where he teaches her about fallacies that see seems to be slow at getting. At the last d ate the law student ask her to be his girl and she says, no because she likes his roommate. This is where it turn comical because she calls him out on all the fallacies as he…show more content… The author built up the characters in the story to let us know how the law student perceived them. One line in the story says she is not a intelligent, but veered in the opposite direction (Shulman 384). So from the start he is telling you she is not smart. Then as they starts taking her on dates he begins teaching her a fallacy but she never seems to get them and he is conflicted. Example she would clap with excitement, say "wow-dow!" or other made up words when he teaching her about fallacies. He winced, but went on explaining about fallacies (Shulman 386). This seems to be showing that the women is a air head, happy go lucky, but not a lot going on between the ears, and that teaching her is painful for the smart young law student. Everything he taught her seemed like it was not being understood as it should have until the last date that she called him out on all the fallacies he was doing as he tried to argue why they should be dating as boyfriend and girlfriend, because I love
