“Love is a fallacy”is a pun that can be understood of two meanings. Love is not only an error, a deception, but also an emotion that does not follow the principle of logic.
Love is fallacious, deceptive, or misleading. Love makes the narrator stupid.
When “fallacy” refers to the quality of being deceptive, the title means “there is a deceptive or delusive quality about love”. Love is an illusion.
? Dobie exchanged his raccoon coat for Petey’s girlfriend. When people regard
love as a deal, it could be a fallacy. Petey thought a raccoon coat was more important than his girlfriend, so the love between Petey and Polly was a fallacy, too.
? ?Polly loves Petey is a fallacy. Polly chooses Petey, because Petey is able to
wander around the campus like those big men in his new fashionable raccoon coat.she can’t be intelligent enough to understand what is temporary and what is enduring, what is illusory and what is practical.
Love is illogical. The narrator has a logical mind, but he fails to win the girl’s love, which does not follow the rules of logic.
When taken as a specific term in logic, the title means “ love can not be deduced from a set of given premises”.
Love is unpredictable, unreasonable.
Love can not be predicted. We can’t decide our couple.
? Dobie’s love to Polly is a fallacy. Dobie believes he can change Polly into a
smart woman, and then they two become a pair of enviable perfect couple. This is truly a “false- analogy” fallacy. Dobie taught Polly several logic theory during whole dating time in order to make an intellectual wife. Love is a fallacy when the two people have other purpose or just love part of the person.
? Polly proves the narrator’s love to her a fallacy. When he shows his love to
Polly after that, Polly refutes all his arguments as illogical based on exactly the same fallacies he teaches her. That means his love to Polly is just a fallacy. The failure made Dobie realize that love is not follow the traditional routine. Love is a fallacy that have an unexpected ending.
Neither the narrator nor Polly loves each other, and they don’t know what is love at all. The narrator gets on Polly to make her his wife, and Polly gets on Petey for raccoon. Both are not for love, but for other purposes. That’s why we find that love is a fallacy in the text.