Love Is A Fallacy Analysis

In the reading “Love is a Fallacy”, Max Shulman writes about a character named Max who attempts to have a relationship with a girl by trading his roommate a racoon coat for the girl in exchange. Max Shulman’s piece is neither anti-women nor anti-men and is, therefore, meant to be irony. This piece is rather ironic because of fallacies appear throughout the piece, the main character Max has fallacies in his thinking, and the character Polly speaks of the fallacies in Max’s reasoning. Out of all the characters, there are only three characters, these three have at least one fallacy in their reasoning.
The piece is mostly ironic because there are fallacies found throughout the work. It is not that difficult to see a fallacy. For example, Petey wanted a racoon coat because he said it was a popular thing to do. Petey had a fallacy called appealing to popularity or bandwagon. Not only is Petey having fallacies, Max is also. It is ironic that the individual teaching fallacies is creating fallacies himself and not entirely knowing that. There are also other ironies that could be found throughout the piece. For example, Max was trying to change Polly into something she was not, he was trying to make her more intelligent than she actually is. It is ironic because she was able to use her knowledge against Max in the end of
Max Shulman’s piece is neither anti-women nor anti-men and is, therefore, meant to be irony. This piece is rather ironic because of fallacies appear throughout the piece, the main character Max has fallacies in his thinking, and the character Polly speaks of the fallacies in Max’s reasoning. Out of all the characters, there are only three characters, these three have at least one fallacy in their reasoning. Irony is throughout the piece and is used to have interactive way for readers to learn about