1.The author ---Max Shulman
(1919-1988）America’s best known humorists, a writer of many talents. best known for his mastery of satire.
While attending the University of Minnesota, Shulman edited the campus humour magazine and was persuaded by a talent scout to pursue a writing career after graduation. His first novel, Barefoot Boy with Cheek (1943), was a best seller and was regarded as a classic of campus humour. While serving in the army during World War II, he wrote The Feather Merchants (1944) and The Zebra Derby
(1946); the latter poked fun at anxious civilians greeting returning
veterans and anxious veterans coping with anxious civilians. Shulman
scored huge popular and critical successes with such novels as The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1951), which inspired a television series of the same name (1959–63) for which Shulman served as scriptwriter, and Rally Round the Flag, Boys! (1957), which was filmed in 1958 and featured Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, and Joan Collins. Shulman also wrote the Broadway play The Tender Trap (1954), which comically portrayed the pitfalls of marriage and in 1955 was made into a motion picture starring Frank Sinatra and Debbie Reynolds. From 1954 to 1970 the irrepressible Shulman, who considered nothing sacred, wrote a syndicated weekly column, “On Campus.”
Love Is a Fallacy is taken from "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis” published in 1951 and brings to light issues of the day including the stereotyping of women.
2. The original story---Love is a fallacy
“Love Is a Fallacy” is a story mainly about the campus love among Dobie, Polly and Petey（Dobie物色了一个拥有作为一个成功律师的妻子潜质的女孩Polly，与室友Petey
Burch谈判，用一件浣熊皮大衣交换了Polly，为了使Polly变得聪明教Polly逻辑学。结果聪明反被聪明误，Polly用Dobie教她的逻辑学知识一一反驳了Dobie的表白，最终选择了拥有浣熊皮大衣的Petey。）
Through the inevitable failure of Dobie’s pursuit for Polly ，the writer is actually criticizing the prevailing social values --- materialism in America.
Dobie不仅是那个狂妄自大的大一法律新生，而且也是物化女性、把女性看作是财产、把自己凌驾于女性之上的大男子形象。
3. Racoon coat and Charleston dance
the Charleston dance prevailing in the 20s
Logic fallacy
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