Don’s differences are real, but he plays up his eccentricities: he likes to see himself as an independent thinker with too much integrity to make ordinary social and professional compromises. What seems to be Asperger’s-induced haplessness turns out, at least some of the time, to be a kind of strategic buffoonery. In fact, Don is a more complex character than he at first appears. Forced out of his tightly structured routine by this “Father Project,” he finds adventure and, inevitably, love. (An associated convention dictates that this free-spirited heroine must appear to have stepped out of an issue of Sassy from 1994.)ĭon becomes increasingly involved with Rosie, despite her evident unsuitability for his “Wife Project.” (He divides his endeavors into “projects” with capitalized names.) She wants to identify her biological father, and Don, a professor of genetics, offers to help surreptitiously collect and test samples of the candidates’ DNA.
late, vegetarian, disorganized, irrational,” with her thick-soled boots and spiky red hair. So along comes Rosie Jarman, “the world’s most incompatible woman. It is a convention of romantic comedy that a man’s rigidly constrained existence must be disrupted by an impulsive and uninhibited woman, and Graeme Simsion’s “Rosie Project,” unlike its hero, is resolutely conventional. He flinches from physical contact and cooks all his meals according to an unvarying schedule his approach to courtship consists of handing women a detailed questionnaire to test their suitability. Don Tillman doesn’t know he has Asperger’s syndrome, although his symptoms are obvious to friends and colleagues.
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