Love is a Fallacy-Summary

Max Schulman is a first year or freshman student in a law school.At the university he has a roommate named Petey Bellows,a nice fellow but dumb as an ok.One nice afternoon as Petey was lying on his bed Max found him with an expression of worry on his face.he first diagnosed Petey with appendicitis and told him not to move,not to take a laxative and that he would call a doctor.But as Petey muttered the words "raccoon" he started wondering what was going wrong.Max asked Petey if what raccoon did he mean.Then Petey answered him that he wanted a raccoon coat.Max then realized that Petey's problem was not a a physical one but a mental one.Wondering why Petey wanted a raccoon coat for himself Max asked Petey about what his problem was all about.After Petey told him the details of his problem he thought of the raccoon coat of his father back home and asked Petey if how important it was to have a raccoon coat.Petey explained and said that he would give anything just for a raccoon coat..anything!!!.Max had in his mind that if Petey would give up anything just for a raccoon coat it may be Polly Espy.Polly was beautiful and gracious but not intelligent.Max did not really like or love Polly but he only wanted her as a wife that would help his career as a lawyer further because he was well aware that a right kind of wife was very important for a lawyer's career.He was only thinking of himself and his career that is why he wanted to marry Polly and not because he loved her.After thinking things over and over..Max asked Petey if what was going on between him and Polly.Then Petey started answering all his questions one after the other.After Petey was able to answer all Max's questions Max decided that he would get the the raccoon coat for Petey but kept it to himself as a secret.He did not tell Petey what he was up to,instead he went home.When Max came back to the university Monday morning he gave to Petey what he had inside his bag..a raccoon coat just as Petey had wanted.Petey was very astonished and asked where it came from.Max told him that it was his father's way back.Petey also asked Max what he wanted in return for it.Max told Petey that he wanted Petey's girl,Polly.
At first Petey did not want to make the deal into a reality.He was thinking very very hard of what he would do.After a few hours of floundering he decided that he would take the raccoon coat and Max in return would have Polly.During Max and Polly's first date,Max first took her to dinner.After eating he then took her to watch a movie and then they bade each other goodnight.When Max was already in his room he began to think of giving back Polly to Petey because of her lack of intelligence and knowledge.He then decided to make an effort of making Polly learn.During their next date Max started to teach Polly about logic and the common fallacies of logic.But as he started teaching Polly about the different examples of fallacies he started to realize that there was no use of teaching her because they were going nowhere with their with their discussion and that she was not able to understand what they were talking about.On the fifth night of dating each other Max told Polly that since they already spent five evenings together then they were already well-matched.Instead Polly used the fallacies he taught her in answering his statements and questions.Max was very amazed of Polly's knowledge and progress in learning the fallacies.He then asked her if she would go steady with him or not.Polly answered him with a no,he asked her why and then she said that she already had promised Petey that she would go steady with him.Max was astounded of what he heard,he then asked Polly why she chose Petey over him and that there was no reason to do so.Polly answered him firmly that there was a reason why she chose Petey.Max asked her again what the reason was and she told him that she went steady with Petey because he had a raccoon coat.