Von Giese, Pauline Phoebe S.

Love is a Fallacy: A Reaction Paper

In Max Schulman’s short story, its message can be contemplated that love is surely a fallacy

if you use logic into it. I believe that logic, the science of thinking, and love do not co-exist for

love is an emotion, a feeling. I mean, love is never ever going to be a thinking science. That what

makes love a fallacy, for one may be blinded of what is real, and there it leads a mistaken belief.

First of all, I had a sensaysh time reading the short story. It was well-written and marvy! I

personally love the irony of the protagonist. He may be a tremendous intellectual or a brilliant law

student; he was still outsmarted by his own logical fallacies. He had a misconception about love,

that when Polly become a logician like him, they well-match. Thus, love should not be based

through logic reasoning. Secondly, I believe that when it comes to emotions like love, we no longer

think straight. We get lost in the process, and we indulge ourselves in the moment. We do not

think, but we seize it. Lastly, I really enjoyed reading it because I did not expect that ending. Geez,

a racoon coat can change everything for him. Also, right in the first narration, I could tell the

fallacy of love. The way the main character approached the girl to teach her logic so she could

qualify to his standards, was not love at all. Indeed, it was a false notion to think love in that way.

Overall, I loved the content of Max Schulman’s short story. I now realized why some love

fails. Perhaps, there is too much fantasy about love that people imagine. However, I might not

agree with the author that love is purely a fallacy. I still believe that there is a common ground of

knowledge what love is, depending on how it is perceived with maturity. This person must

understand what is the truth, what is actual and existing in the world of love. He should know that

he is blinded by love, that he is in the state of fallacy.