Irony and Humorous V oice: A Formalistic
Approach to “Love is a Fallacy”
080740713 陈瑛
Abstract:Love is a Fallacy is Max Shulman’s short novel and his representative work. Shulman is an American writer, whose writing is famous for humous style. And his writing often focuses on young people, particularly in a collegiate setting, including Love is a Fallacy.Shulman is probably best remembered for his creation of the character“Dobie Gillis”, a typical American teen who frequently suffers from ramantic angst. Love is a Fallacy is a story that lets us know not whether to laugh or cry. Its charm lies in a fine sense of humour and irony, having lifelike characters, and having relaxed and vivid style of writing. Shulman narrates a emotional entanglement just resulting from a raccon coat among three young university students. Enclosing this entanglement, Shulman presents one by one their emotional orientation and value judgement.The author describes Dobie gets pretty but stupid girlfriend in change of raccon coat. In order to cultivate her to be a qualified wife, Dobie teaches her logic painstakingly, but finally she refuses him in use of the logic she has learned. The reason is that she has agreed to be girlfriend of Dobie’s roommate, because “He’s got a raccoon coat.”This paper tries to analyse this short story through the employment of critical approach to literature-formalistic approach.
Key W ords: irony, love, formalistic approach
The formalistic critic deals with irony and paradox, with the tensions that result from multiple interactions within the organic from of the literary piece. By these
principles,in evidence,Love is a Fallacy is an excellent example. First, the title sets us going. “Love is a Fallacy”in itself reveals the tone of the author-irony and humorous. How can love be a fallacy? It is well-known that love is the greatest refreshment in life, and love is like a butterfly, it goes where it pleases and it pleases where it goes. It is difficult for us to connect love with fallacy. The author’s novel view of love to some extent reflects his irony to Dobie’s view of love. What’s more, fallacies in the novel are what Dobie teaches to Polly, in the end, Polly uses the fallacies to resuses Dobie, which for Dobie is a bolt from the blue. From this angle, the author satirizes Dobie’s unappropriate attitude to love. Besides, the title has two meanings. When fallacy is taken in its ordinary sense, the title means: There is a deceptive or quality about love. When it is taken as a specific term in logic, the title means: Love cannot be deduced from a set of given premises. Love is an error, a deception and an emotion that does not follow the principles of logic.”All these can give powerful evidence.
Second, from the body of the novel, apparently, the author employs the formalistic approach to analyse the characters. The whole story is abound in satire and irony. It is satirizing a smug, self-conceited freshman Dobie in a law school. Dobie is made the narrator of the story who goes on smugly boasting and singing pra ises of himself at every chance he could get. From the very beginning in paragraph 4, he starts to keep on himself all the beautiful words of praise he could think of, such as “cool, logical, keen, calculating, perspicacious, cute and astute.” At the same time, he takes every opportunity to downgrade Petey. He considers Petey “dumb as an ox”. He
calls Petey “nothing upstairs”, “emotional”, “unstable”, and “a faddist”. And as for Polly, she is “a beautiful dumb girl”, who would smarten up under his guidance. It proves to be a big irony for Dobie when the dumb girl goes back to her former dumb boyfriend Petey, just because the latter has a raccoon coat.And the author wants to show that logic may be an interesting subject, “far from being a dry, pedantic subject, is a living, breathing thing, full of beaty, passion and trauma ”. He is exxaggerating for the sake of humor. The author uses a whole variety of writing techniqes to make his story vivid, dramatic and colorful, so then, it has an effect of irony and humor. The lexical spectrum is colorful from the ultra learned terms used by the conceited Dobie to the infra clipped vulgar forms of Polly. He uses figurative language profusely and also grammatical inversion for special emphasis. For example, “First he looked at the coat with the expression with of a waif at a bakery window ”, and “Cool was I and logical”. These add to the tone and the intention of the athor. The author also deliberately makes Polly use a lot of exclamatory words like “Gee”, “Oo”, “wow-wow” and clipped vulgar forms like “relish”, “marvy” to create a character of simple and rather stupid girl. This contrasts strongly with the boasting of the author and thus helps to increase the force of satire and irony.
Finally, the unexpected ending is forceful. In our opinion, Dobie teaches Polly logic, in return, Polly would naturally accept Dobie’s love. However, Polly chooses Petey, for the reason that he has a raccoon coat. It is ironic because the whole thing backfires on Dobie when Polly refuses all his arguments as logical fallacies before finally rejecting him. The end of the story finds that Dobie has got what he deserves.
He has been too clever for his own good. It proves to be a big irony for Dobie, and a tragedy. He has made great effort, while he achieves nothing at last. His fancy himself clever reaps the fruits of his action. As for Petey, he not only gets the raccoon coat, but gains the love of Polly. Although it is a humorous story, full of irony, it is worthy of our deeply thinking when facing with love. By Dobie’s tragic ending, we can conclude that love is a fallacy and can not be got by every means. Love is not on the premise of change. And nobody can prognosis the result of love. When someone wants to control love with full confidence, actually, he has already been a failure. Therefore, this paper tries to use the formalistic approach to analyse the story, particularly irony and humorous voice to deeply understand the internal meaning of the novel and the intention of the author.
The story was set in one of the Universities in the United States of America. Dobie, according to his own assessment, is a cool, logical, keen, calculating, perspicacious, acute and astute guy who wanted to have a girl named Polly. Polly was a beautiful, gracious, intelligent girl. Polly by then was dating the main character's roommate Petey. Petey was eager to have a raccoon coat so that he can be in the swim as the Big Men in campus. Dobie wanted to exchange the girl by giving him a raccoon coat. The narrator’s tone was humorous in the later story when he was hanging out with Polly and he thought he was excellent enough to date with Polly. Rather than being nothing upstairs and emotional type just like Petey, he taught Polly 8 logic fallacies in order to make her smart. However, it is a satire that the girl turn down Dobie’s request of being his girlfriend with the logical statement Dobie taught her. And it is also a satire that Polly finally received Petey’s love just because he had a raccoon coat. The love relationship between the three characters is actually a fallacy itself. Dobie thought love was only to be a perfect guy so as to deserve a perfect girlfriend. After his great endeavor to perfect Polly to have a logic thinking, Polly got her acknowledge of love, that is follow her own desire. Petey thought he lost his lover when he accept Dobie’s raccoon coat, however, he was the last one to own Polly as he had a raccoon coat. All the three were given the result they hadn’t expected at first. In my opinion, the funny story was exiting due to the wrong personal
第一幕道具：皮毛衣 Petey 和polly 在湖边约会。正当petey很猥琐的想要亲polly时polly一把把他推进了湖里，Petey“what are you doing？！” polly“I am done with you, I love your roommate Jake.”并指着远远走过来的Jake Petey“why?” polly“because he has a raccoon coat.” 第二幕道具：酒瓶 Dobie抱着一堆书从门口进来，一边照镜子，一边自言自语说“Cool was I and logical. Keen, calculating, perspicacious, acute and astute--I was all of these. My brain was as powerful as a dynamo, as precise as a chemist's scales, as penetrating as a scalpel. And--think of it! --I was only eighteen.” 一不小心踢到了正坐在地上为失恋而伤心的petey， D“what’s wrong with you？Don't take a laxative. I'll get a doctor” petey“raccoon……”“raccoon……” D“what？Raccoon？” P“1 want a raccoon coat” D“Why do you want a raccoon coat?” P“1 should have known they'd come back when the Charleston came back..Like a fool I spent all my money for textbooks, and now I can't get a raccoon coat. So polly just want to leave me alone.” Petey突然站了起来，不小心撞到了正俯着身子看他的dobie，“I must get a raccoon coat!” D“Petey, why? Look at it rationally. Raccoon coats are shed. They smell bad. They weight too much. They're unsightly. They……” P“you don’t understand, I'd give anything for a raccoon coat. Anything!” D“anything？” 第三幕dobie筹谋着追polly D“petey, are you still in love with Polly?” P“maybe……I don’t know” D“well，do you have any kind of formal arrangement with her? I mean are you going steady or anything like that?” P “No. We see each other quite a bit, but we both have other dates. Why” D“Nothing.”转身准备行李，然后慢慢走向门口。 P“where are you going？” D“home for the weekend” P“can you lend some money to me so I can buy a raccoon coat？” D“1 may do better than that” 第四幕dobie问爸爸要皮衣爸爸在书房看书。 D“dad，you have a raccoon coat, haven’t you? A huge, hairy, gamy object that you had worn in his Stutz Bearcat in 1925. ”
Paraphrase 1.He is a nice enough young fellow, you know, but he is empty-headed. 2. A passing fashion or craze, in my opinion, shows a complete lack of reason. 3.I ought to have known that raccoon coats would come back to fashion when the Charleston dance, which was popular in the 1920s, came back. 4.All the important and fashionable men on campus are wearing them. How come you don't know? 5.My brain, which is a precision instrument, began to work at high speed. 6.Except for one thing (intelligence) Polly had all the other requirements. 7.She was not as beautiful as those girls in posters but I felt sure she would become beautiful enough after some time. 8.In fact, she went in the opposite direction, that is, she is not intelligent but rather stupid. 9.If you were no longer involved with her (if you stopped dating her) others would be free to compete to get her as a girlfriend. 10.His head turned back and forth (looking at the coat then looking away from the coat). Every time he looked his desire for the coat grew stronger and his resolution not to give away Polly became weaker. 11.To teach her to think appeared to be a rather big task. 12.One must admit the outcome does not look very hopeful, but I decided to try one more time. 13.There is a limit to what any human being can bear. 14.I planned to be Pygmalion, to fashion an ideal wife for myself, but I turned out to be Frankenstein because Polly (the result/product of my hard work) ultimately rejected me and ruined my plan. 15.Desperately I tried to stop the feeling of panic that was overwhelming me. Translation 1.我的大脑像发电机一样给力，像化学家的天平一样精确，像手术刀一样锋利· 2.遇到一个新潮流就紧跟，沉溺于愚蠢之事，仅仅因为别人在那么干一一一这 在我看来，简直愚蠢透顶。 3.我要特别说明的是，我想得到这妙龄女子并非感情的驱使。 4.毕竟，使一个漂亮的傻姑娘变得聪明比使一个聪明的丑姑娘变得漂亮要容易 些。 5.他的心情极其矛盾，犹豫不决。他先是用面包店窗前的流浪儿那种馋涎欲滴 的神情望着那件皮大衣，接着扭过头去，坚定地咬紧牙关。 6.说不定在她头脑里死火山口中的什么地方，还留有一些残余的火星呢。 7.毕竟，医生在做手术时可以看x光片，律师在审暗时可以看案由，木匠在造 房子时可以看蓝图。 8.假若居里夫人没有碰巧把一张底片放在装有沥青铀矿石的抽屉里，那么世人 今天就不会知道什么是镭。 9.突然，一道智慧之光一一．，这是我从未看到过的·一一闪现在她的眼中。 10.看到波莉并不那么傻，我的信心大增·。于是，我便开始把对她讲过的一切， 长时间地、耐心地复习了一遍。
…… “What? No!” The angriness was full of my mind. I had to tell Polly the fact that what kind of person Petey is. I explained peacefully, “The raccoon coat is not his. I lent him a few days ago when I found him lying on his bed with an expression of such distress on his face. He was dying to have a raccoon coat.” He treated me like that, which led me treat him the same way. “How can he consider the coat as his? Um…Maybe we can meet together tomorrow afternoon and figure all things out. How do you think?” “Okay! It sounds that what you said seems right. But, now, I don’t believe you! So, see you tomorrow.” Polly said, after some hesitation. When I got back to my room, Petey was reading a fashion magazine. “What did you do, Petey? Why did Polly say that she would go steady with you? Can you tell me what’s going on right now?” I just grabbed his magazine, and yelled to him. “Hey, buddy! Don’t be like this. Listen to me. Here is the thing: this afternoon, I came across Polly in my raccoon. I said hello to her. I thought she fell in love with me, after we talked a lot, and so did I. You know, she is so adorable, charming and intelligent. So, I cannot be happy without her, and the deal is not a deal now. Sorry!”And he passed me the raccoon coat. “Owning a pretty girlfriend is also popular, which is better than owning a raccoon coat.” “Ok! Polly wants to see you tomorrow afternoon. You will know she is in love with the raccoon coat instead of you. ” “That’s impossible! I believe that I am the one she loves.” He said seriously. The next afternoon coming, we three all arrived at the place on time. “Petey, why don’t you wear your raccoon coat. You should look very good in the raccoon coat.” Polly stood very close to Petey. “Oh, Polly, I have something to tell you. The raccoon coat is not mine. I borrowed it from Dobie a few days ago. I thought I looked cool in the coat. I was wrong. I realized I don’t need a raccoon coat to let me look cool now, for I have you now. This let me look so cool!” “But if you don’t have a raccoon coat, I will not be with you. With a raccoon coat, you are in fashion, but you don’t have one. I love fashion. So I will not go steady with you.” Polly said disappointedly, and left Petey decisively. Suddenly, I recognized that what a stupid thing I am doing! I don’t want this Polly-style person to be my wife. Then, I accompanied Petey back to our room, telling him that love is a fallacy all the way. And the raccoon coat was back its home, too (in a trunk in the attic back home).
https://www.doczj.com/doc/1a12938205.html,/v_show/id_XMzI4OTIxNDQ=.html（这是6-59段的performance，可作参考） If to give an individual definition to love, what will your definition be? Love is ___________________. 每位学生想出一个词。上课提问。 Practicing (Appreciation of logic fallacies) In this story, there are many logical terms and examples about these terms which are given by the narrator in correspondence. You have previewed the story. Can you list all of them? Analyze the following fallacies with the help of the text. Dicto Simpliciter (绝对判断) Hasty Generalization(草率结论, 不完全归纳) Post Hoc (牵强附会, 假性因果) Contradictory Premises (矛盾前提, 二立背反，大前提有毛病 Ad Misericordiam：拉丁文，意思为诉诸同情文不对题(a Latin phrase meaning "to pity" ; a fallacy in logic of appealing to pity or compassion. ) False Analogy (错误类比) Hypothesis Contrary to Fact (与事实相反的假设) Poisoning the Well (投毒下井) 1. Dog is a pet. Everyone likes it. 2. I haven’t seen a UFO; Jason hasn’t either; Ms Yan hasn’t probably; so no UFO at all. 3. Don’t sing this song. Every time you sing this song, the baby gets sick. 4. This is the mightiest sword which is able to shatter any shield, and that is the most indestructible shield which is capable of enduring any stroke. 5. “He was late to the class today.” “Because he was scolded by his mother yesterday.” 6. Since we have moon cakes in the Moon Festival, why don’t we have spring cakes in the Spring Festival? 7. If the gunpowder hadn’t been invented, there wouldn’t have been so many wars in the world. 8. Don’t listen to any word from him, for he is most shameful cheating around the world. Please match the terms with those examples which will help you to understand how does the plot develop in the whole text. （study group） What are the characteristics of the title? What kind of genre the text belong to? Argumentation\narration\exposition\description? Elements of a story Setting: Conflict: fallacy & Love Characters: Protagonist: Antagonist: Point of view:
创作编号：BG7531400019813488897SX 创作者：别如克* Love is a Fallacy 翻译 标签：皮大衣浣熊波利查尔斯矛盾分类：别人的文章2008-04-12 10:02 查尔斯．兰姆是一个世所罕见的性情欢快、富有进取心的人，他那笔下的散文《古瓷器》和《梦中的孩子》无拘无束、自由奔放。实在令人难忘。下面这篇文章比兰姆的作品更加自由奔放。实际上，用“自由奔放”的字眼来形容这篇文章并不十分确切，或许用“柔软”、“轻松”或“轻软而富有弹性”更为恰如其分。 尽管很难说清这篇文章是属于哪一类，但可以肯定它是一篇散文小品文。它提出了论点。引用了许多例证，并得出了结论。卡菜尔能写得更好吗?罗斯金呢? 这篇文章意在论证逻辑学非但不枯燥乏味而且活泼、清新、富于关感和激情，并给人以启迪。诸位不妨一读。 ——作者注 我这个人头脑冷静，逻辑思维能力强。敏锐、慎重、聪慧、深刻、机智一一这些就是我的特点。我的大脑像发电机一样发达，孳化学家的天平一样精确，像手术刀一样锋利。一一你知道吗?我才十八岁呀。 年纪这么轻而智力又如此非凡的人并不常有。就拿在明尼苏达大学跟我同住一个房间的皮蒂·伯奇来说吧，他跟我年龄相哆’经历一样，可他笨得像头驴。小伙子长得年轻漂亮，可惜脑子里却空空如也。他易于激动，情绪反复无常，容易受别人的影响。最糟的是他爱赶时髦。我认为，赶时髦就是最缺乏理智的表现。见到一q9种新鲜的东西就跟着学，以为别人都在那么干，自己也就卷进去傻干——这在我看来，简直愚蠢至极，但皮蒂却不以为然。 一天下午我看见皮蒂躺在床上，脸上显露出一种痛苦不堪的表情，我立刻断定他是得了阑尾炎。“别动，”我说，“别吃泻药，我就请医生来。”
①绝对判断 Dicto simpliciter An argument based on an unqualified generalization Eg:1.exercise is good . There everybody should exercise.(who have heart disease) 2.meat will make people fat. (吃肉会长胖) ②草率结论 Hasty generalization Eg:1.you can`t speak french. I can`t speak french. Petey can`t speak french. So nobody at the university of minnesota can speak french. 2.齐国晏子楚国君王橘生淮南则为橘，生于淮北则为枳，叶徒相似，其实味不同。所以然者何？水土异也。今民生长于齐不盗，入楚则盗，得无楚之水土使民善盗耶？” ③牵强附会 Post hoc A faulty generalization by reaching an inductive generalization based on insufficient evidence Eg:1.let`s not take Bill on our picnic. Evert time we take him out with us ,it rains. 2.Bill purchases a new Power Mac and it works fine for months. He then buys and installs a new piece of software. The next time he starts up his Mac, it freezes. Bill concludes that the software must be the cause of the freeze. ④前提矛盾 Contradictory premises An argument that draws conclusion from inconsistent or incompatible Essentially a proposition is contradictory when it asserts and denies the same thing Eg:1. if god can do anything,can he make a stone so heavy that he won`t be able to lift it? 2. ⑤文不对题 Ad misericordiam Eg:1.a man applies for a job. Instead he appeals to the boss`s sympathy. 2.We hope you'll accept our recommendations. We spent the last three months working extra time on it. ⑥错误类比 False analogy Eg:1.students should be allowed to look at their textbooks during examinations. After all, surgeons have x-rays to guide them during an operation ,lawyers have briefs to guide them during a trial. 2.
词汇(Vocabulary) fallacy (n.) : a false or mistaken idea，opinion，etc.；error谬论，谬见；错误 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- enterprising (adj.) :full of energy and initiative；willing to undertake new projects有进取心的；充满首创精神的；有胆量的 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- unfetter (v.) : free from fetters；free from restraint of any kind；liberate 除掉…的脚镣；解放；使获得自由 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- limp (adj.) :1acking or having lost stiffness；flaccid；drooping，wilted 柔软的 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- flaccid (adj.) : hanging in loose folds or wrinkles：soft and limp；flabby 不结实的；松驰的；松软的 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- spongy (adj.) :of or like a sponge；soft and porous海绵(状)的；柔软有弹性的 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- pedantic (adj.) : of or like a pedant迂腐的，书呆子气的 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- trauma (n.) :a painful emotional experience，or shock．often producing a lasting psychic effect and sometimes a neurosis(精神)心灵创伤 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- calculating (adj.) : shrewd or cunning. esp. in a selfish way；scheming 精明的；(尤指)专为自己打算的；有算计的 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- perspicacious (adj.) :having keen judgement or understanding；acutely perceptive聪颖的；敏锐的 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- astute (adj.) : having or showing a clever or shrewd mind：cunning；crafty；
在进入今天主题，讲述我和小美的故事之前我想先给大家推荐这样的一片文章，其实正是因为我自己的经历我才深深的懂得了这篇文章的内在，而我希望将它跟大家分享，如果你在爱情里面遇到类似的问题，那么我相信这篇文章会给你一点启示的，当然同时，你也可以提升自己的英文。 Love Is a Fallacy《爱情是个谬误》这是一篇我非常喜欢的文章，这也是在大学里我教授的三年级外语专业学生高级英语课本里面的一篇经典文章，国外的大学生也会同步在写作课学习这篇文章。以前我喜欢它只是单纯把它当做一篇幽默的文章来对待，其实也没有深深的去体会过其中滋味，但是现在我才真正体会到为什么爱情是一个谬误。 主人公是一个非常自信甚至很自负的法学院大一男生Dobbie,他自认为又帅，又有才，他看上了自己室友的女友，很想得到那个女生，但是这个女生Polly 只是一个表面很漂亮但却很没有脑子的女生，所以Dobbie决定要先改变这个女孩，把她变聪明之后再得到她。当然第一步是得先得到室友的同意。室友是一个拜金狂，依然没有脑子，于是Dobbie用一件浣熊大衣作为交换条件就轻松得到了室友的许可，于是就和Polly开始约会了。 约会的内容就是教不同的逻辑谬误给Polly，为的就是让她变聪明，因为主人公认为逻辑是让人变聪明的法宝，于是约会就这么开始了，他教授的逻辑问题如下： 1. 绝对判断（Dicto Simpliciter）的谬误。例子如下：“运动是非常有益的，它能增强体质，所以每个人都应该做运动!”，这个论断是明显错误的，因为运动有益是一种无条件的前提。比方说，假设你得了心脏病，运动不但无益，反而有害，有不少人医生就不准他们运动。你必须给这种前提加以限制。你应该说，一般来说运动是有益的。或者说，对大多数人是有益的。否则就是犯了绝对判断的错误 2. 草率结论（Hasty Generalization）的谬误。例子如下：“你不会讲法语，我不会讲法语，皮蒂也不会讲法语。因此我就会断定在明尼苏达大学谁也不会讲法语。”。这明显是一种谬误，这是一种草率的结论。因为支持这种结论的例证太少了。 3. 牵强附会（Post Hoc）的谬误。例子如下：“我们不要带比尔出去野餐。每次带他一起去，天就下雨。” 这是一种谬误。下雨并不是尤拉蓓克尔造成的，下雨与她没有任何关系。 4. 矛盾前提（Contradictory Premises）的例子：如果上帝是万能的，他能造出一块连他自己也搬不动的大石头吗?” ，这依然是谬误，因为如果一种论点的各个前提是矛盾的，那么这种论点就不能成立。如果有一种不可抗拒的
Love is a Fallacy Max Shulman 1 Charles Lamb, as merry and enterprising a fellow as you will meet in a month of Sundays, unfettered the informal essay with his memorable Old China and Dream's Children. There follows an informal essay that ventures even beyond Lamb's frontier, indeed, "informal" may not be quite the right word to describe this essay; "limp" or " flaccid" or possibly "spongy" are perhaps more appropriate. 2 Vague though its category, it is without doubt an essay. It develops an argument; it cites instances; it reaches a conclusion. Could Carlyle do more? Could Ruskin ? 3 Read, then, the following essay which undertakes to demonstrate that logic, far from being a dry, pedantic discipline, is a living, breathing thing, full of beauty, passion, and trauma --Author's Note 4 Cool was I and logical. Keen, calculating, perspicacious, acute and astute--I was all of these. My brain was as powerful as a dynamo, as precise as a chemist's scales, as penetrating as a scalpel. And--think of it! --I was only eighteen. 5 It is not often that one so young has such a giant intellect. Take, for example, Petey Butch, my roommate at the University of Minnesota. Same age, same background, but dumb as an ox. A nice enough young fellow, you understand, but nothing upstairs. Emotional type. Unstable. Impressionable. Worst of all, a faddist. Fads, I submit, are the very negation of reason. To be swept up in every new craze that comes along, to surrender yourself to idiocy just because everybody else is doing it--this, to me, is the acme of mindlessness. Not, however, to Petey. 6 One afternoon I found Petey lying on his bed with an expression of such distress on his face that I immediately diagnosed appendicitis. "Don't move," I said. "Don't take a laxative. I'll get a doctor." 7 "Raccoon," he mumbled thickly. 8 "Raccoon?" I said, pausing in my flight. 9 "1 want a raccoon coat," he wailed. 10 I perceived that his trouble was not physical, but mental. "Why do you want a raccoon coat?" 11 "1 should have known it," he cried, pounding his temples. "1 should have known they'd come back when the Charleston came back. Like a fool I spent all my money for textbooks, and now I can't get a raccoon coat." 12 "Can you mean." I said incredulously, "that people are actually wearing raccoon coats again?" 13 "All the Big Men on Campus are wearing them. Where've you been?" 14 "In the library," I said, naming a place not frequented by Big Men on Campus
姓名：王昭君 班级：英师本1106班 学号：20111411105 Love is a fallacy In the text, the author thinks that love is a thing that could be used for changing of the materials. In his mind, he just wants to marry a girl who is useful and suitable to his future. He makes a deal with his roommate by using the racoon coat to change for his girlfriend Polly. He simplifies the true meaning of love. He treats it as a deal or a changing of material which is the biggest mistake that he makes. In my point of view, love is the mutual appealing of the two people in their inner heart. It could not buy or change by anything. Love is the feeling that one wants to stay with another. It’s a feeling which beyond our description. Its the willing that one wants to take care of another. The deepest love is the appealing of the two people’s life, the staying together of the two people’s soul. In my mind, my Mr. Right should give me enough respect. He must have his own entrepreneur spirit in his life. The most important thing is that he must be concentrate on our love and be responsible for it.