高级英语第二册第五课第一部分.ppt

introduction to the Text About the Story ●“Love is a Fallacy” is taken from Max Shulman’s The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, 1951. The narrator of the story is Dobie. ●It is about a law student who tries to marry the girl after suitable re-education, but he’s been too clever for his own good. Introduction to the Text About the Story This text is a piece of narrative writing, a story. The narrator of the story, Dobie Gillis, a freshman in a law school, is the hero or protagonist. He struggles against two antagonists: Petey Burch, his roommate whose girlfriend he plans to steal; and Polly Espy, the girl he intends to marry after suitable re-education. The climax of the story is reached in paragraphs147 to150 when Polly refuses to go steady with the narrator because she had already promised to go steady with Petey Burch. Introduction to the Text The denouement follows rapidly and ends on a very ironic tone. The raccoon coat which he gave to Petey Burch for the privilege of dating his girl, the raccoon coat which the narrator disliked and abhorred, was the instrument of his undoing. Polly Espy promised to go steady with Petey Burch because he owned a raccoon coat, a coat that all fashionable people on campus were wearing. The main theme of the story, however, is stated by the writer in the title of the story: “Love is a fallacy” Introduction to the Text The whole story is a piece of light, humorous satire. The writer, Max Shulman, is satirizing or making fun of a smug, self-conceited freshman in a law school. The freshman is made the narrator of the story who goes on smugly boasting and singing praises of himself at every conceivable opportunity. From the very beginning (para.4), he begins to heap on(大加颂扬) himself all the beautiful words of praise he can think of— cool, logical, keen, calculating, perspicacious, acute, astute, powerful, precise and penetrating. This exaggerated self-praise and the profuse use of similes and metaphors help to make the satire humorous. In