Love Is a Fallacy,Definition of love,n, a strong feeling of liking someone a lot combined with sexual attraction v, to have a strong feeling of affection for someone, combined with sexual attraction,爱情名言,林徽因：“时光如水，总是无言，你若安好，便是晴天 徐志摩：“一生至少该有一次，为了某个人而忘了自己，不求有结果，不求同行，不求曾经拥有，甚至不求你爱我，只求在我最美的年华里，遇到你 梁思成：“你是自由的，如果你选择了金岳霖，我祝你们永远幸福 金岳霖：“一身诗意千寻瀑，万古人间四月天 马伊琍：“恋爱虽易,婚姻不易,且行且珍惜!” 村上春树：“如若相爱，便携手到老，如若错过，便护他安好 Roger de Bussy-Rabutin：“Absence to love is what wind is to fire. It extinguishes the small; it inflames the great. ” 离别之于爱情好比风之于火，它能将小火熄灭，使大火熊熊燃烧。
法国作家比西-拉比旦.R.) Plato：“Every man is a poet when he is in love. 每个恋爱中的人都是诗人古希腊哲学家 柏拉图) Shakespear：“the course of true love never did run smooth”. 真爱无坦途,Love is a telephone Love is a telephone which always keeps silent when you are longing for a call, but rings when you are not ready for it. As a result, we often miss the sweetness from the other end. 爱情是一部，渴望它响起时，它却总是悄无声息；不经心留意时，它又丁零零地响起因此，我们经常错过另一端传来的温馨的甜蜜Love is a telephone,Love is telephone, but it is difficult to seize the right time for dialing, and you will let slip the opportunity if your call is either too early or too late. 爱情这部，很难把握拨号时机。
拨得太早或者太迟，机遇均会丧失 Love is a telephone which often has crossed lines. And this usually happens to you unexpectedly. Your time will either cross or be crossed. Both cases are refereed to as “triangle“. Fortunately, all such occurrences are transient. 爱情这部还经常串线，而且串线常在你意想不到的时候发生不是你的线路串到别人的线路上，就是别人的线路串到你的线路上这两种情况均称为“三角串”幸运的是，每一次串线都是暂时的About the title,The title is humorous and well-chosen. When “fallacy” is taken in its ordinary sense, the title means there is a deceptive or delusive quality about love. When 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. There is no such thing as love in terms of logic.,The theme of the story,The main theme of the story of the story is stated by the writer in the title: Love is a fallacy.,The story is set on a university campus, which is a miniature of the whole American society in the 1950s, which is devoured by the moral degeneration money-oriented social values.,Settings,About the story,The narrator of the story is Dobie Gills, a freshman in a law school who is proud of his logic reasoning and general intellectual capability. Dobie Gills grapples with Petey Bellows, whose girlfriend he hopes that he can persuade to give up and Polly Espy, Petey’s girlfriend he intends to marry after he has improves her. He is quite sure of his final success because he is smarter and it is only logical that the girl will choose him. However, the result is a great surprise to him because the girl turns down his proposal and choose Petey Burch, all because of what Dobie Gills regards as a “silly reason”, thus proving that “Love is a fallacy”.,I,My roommate,My roommate’s girlfriend,Cool. Logical. Keen. Calculating. Perspicacious. Acute Astute.,Dumb as an ox. Emotional. Unstable. Impressionable Faddist,Beautiful. Gracious. Not intelligent.,I,My roommate,My roommate’s girlfriend,,,,Taught her a lot of things to make her clever enough for him.,,Writing Style,Max Shulman has a good style. The story goes forward at a fast pace with racy dialogues full of American colloquialism and slang. He employs a whole variety of writing techniques to make his story vivid. He use ultra learned terms to reveal the conceit of the narrator and clipped vulgar forms to illustrate Polly Espy’s limited intellectual capability. He also use figurative language profusely and inversion for emphasis. The speed of the narration is maintained by the use of short sentences, elliptical sentences and dashes throughout the story. The combination of all these help to make the story realistic, as one would expect a freshman to talk like that.,Rhetorical devices in the story,Inversion (Cool was I and logical. // Beautiful she was. Gracious she was. Intelligent she was not. ) Metaphor (My brain, that precision instrument, slipped into high gear.) Rhetorical question (What’s Polly to me, or me to Polly?) Simile (My brain was as powerful as a dynamo, as precise as a chemist’s scale, as penetrating as scalpel.) Hyperbole (It is not often that one so young has such a giant intellect.) Ellipsis (Same age, same background, but dumb as an ox.),Rhetorical devices in the story,7. Metonymy (She was, to be sure, a girl who excited the emotions. But I was not one to let my heart rule my head.) 8. Antithesis (It is, after all, easier to make a beautiful dumb girl smart than to make an ugly smart girl beautiful.) 9. Analogy (It was like digging a tunnel. At first, everything was work, sweat, and darkness. … But I persisted. I pounded and clawed and scraped, and finally I was rewarded. I saw a chink of light. And then the chink got bigger and the sun came pouring in and all was bright.) 10. Understatement (It must not be thought that I was without love for。