– the teaching of 8 logical fallacies
• Sect 3 : para 126-- 154
– The girl learns her lessons too well. She uses all the logical fallacies to fight back her teacher.
• para 1-3 – It is the author's note. – 1. The author's idea about this story. – 2. The author's idea about the purpose of this story.
• Sect 1 para. 4 --59
The climax
-Polly refuses to go steady with the narrator because she has already promised to be Petey’s girlfriend
-Petey had a raccoon coat--big men were wearing
• the bargain between the law student and his roommate over the exchange of the girl.
– 1) p4 introduction of the narrator -protagonist
– 2) p5-21 introduction of the first antagonist -- Petey Burch
Love is a fallacy文章结构
▪ Relationship
Burch
want
Raccoon coat
Belongs to Belongs to
polly
Dobie Gillis
Want a wife
• Preface ：para 1-3 • Sect 1 : para. 4 --59 • Sect 2 : para 60 -- 125 • Sect 3 : para 126-- 154
• He downgrades his roommate, who has nothing upstairs and is thought dumb as an ox.
– 3) p22 -- 27 introduction of he second antagonist -- Polly Espy
– 4) p 28--40 sounding out / finding out the relationship between Petey and Polly.
– 5) p.40 --59 a deal over Polly
• Sect 2. para 60 -- 125
– It vividly describes the incredibly tough project of making dumb Polly smart,and the seeming success
"to demonstrate that logic, far from being a dry, pedantic(卖弄学问的) subject, is a living, breathing thing, full of beauty, passion, and trauma."
• As the story went on...
-The narrator made a deal with his
roommate. -First date with Polly ,disappointed - Decided to teach her to think and to learn logic -After lessons, tried to changed relationship from academic to romantic
The whole story—— The writer is
satirizing a smug, self-conceited hman in a law school
The very beginning ——the narrator
begins with all the beautiful words he can think of to praise himself at every conceivable opportunity - takes every opportunity to downgrade his roommate.
• The ending...
- Ironic
-The narrator has got what he deserved. He has been too clever for his own good.
The purpose of the essay
• (according to the writer)