Love is a Fallacy

By; Edgar Allan Poe

Love Is a Fallacy has told us that no matter how excellent you are, you should
not always show to others or bears in your mind all the time, or it will
definitely result in bad situations. It tells a story about love or logic in a sense
among three main characters the narrator, Petey Burch and Polly Espy. The
narrator is a self-called cool, logic, keen, calculating, perspicacious, acute
and astute student while Petey tends to be much more interested in craze,
especially in the clothing. One day, Petey Burch resigned to exchange the
narrators raccoon coat with his girlfriend Polly. Satisfying the needs of both
of them, the deal had been made. For a few days, and by some small tests,
the narrator found that Polly was really an unintelligent girl. To make her
logic and intelligent according to his standards, the narrator began to teach
her logic. Respectively, the narrator set some examples first, then she was to
answer, in fact her answers just adhere to the false logic which convinced
the narrators decision. Finally after the narrator realized that Polly has really
become logical, the narrator decided to propose to her. Unexpectedly, Polly
used all the logic fallacies that I taught her to refute my offer. When it comes
to the reason why she refused me, she said with a logical reason, Petey has
got a raccoon coat. In this story, the narrator seems to be the final winner
while he is just the victim. The interesting ending tells us some information,
that is, love is not just a fallacy.

The story expresses humors. When Polly uses fallacies to reply

his words is also logic. In this way the readers would be
interested and would definitely enjoy it.

The author wants to take action to logic teaching about love. He

wants to give us a new perspective about love that the character
showed to the story. His intention is dont give false love to others
we should not think about ourselves but also the feelings whom
who loves us.

The main rhetorical strategy used in was irony. Trying to change

Polly into something that she was not came back to bite him in
 the end. He also uses imagery to describe the characters'
reactions and facial expressions to all that happened.

When compared with his girlfriend, he finally chose the raccoon

coat, which also shows the hesitation is no part of his nature when
it comes to craze. He is made the narrator of the story boasting
and singing praises of himself at every chance he could get and
at the same time, he takes every chance to downgrade Petey. As
for Polly, thought her as a beautiful dump girl, who might smarten
up under his guidance. The real reason for him to teach Polly is
that he wants her to be his girlfriend and can match up with him
in intelligence. This is the presentation of his ego. What he thinks
about or cares about is just himself. As a result, he loses
everything the raccoon coat, the girl himself. Here I say, losing
himself, means that he will finally know what on earth he himself
is like.

The conclusion of the story is ironic because the whole thing

backfires on the logical fallacies before finally rejecting him. The
ending finds that the narrator has got what he deserves. He has
been too clever for his own good. In other words, it is the failure
of their ego.