Rhetorical Analysis Of Love Is A Fallacy

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The American writer and humorist, Max Shulman, in his essay or short story ‘Love is a Fallacy’ discusses logical fallacies. In this essay Shulman uses logical fallacies to express how love is a fallacy. Shulman effectively applies the logical fallacies to essay. The logical fallacies he uses makes his essay more understandable and helps you understand the ending better. Shulman explains all these fallacies in his essay in, which provides a description. These descriptions provide information that is needed to comprehend the last scene which shows love is a fallacy. In the last page of the essay Shulman begins to reveal he has feeling for his love interest in the short story and as he is trying to confess his love while he is trying to pour

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