

Rosie enters the picture when Don mistakes her for a Wife Project applicant. He hopes this process will identify a select pool of perfect candidates from which he can choose a partner. He develops a stringent and detailed 16-page questionnaire to weed out all of the inappropriate and unqualified women.


Because of his difficulties with social interactions, when the novel begins Don has not had a significant relationship, or even a second date.ĭon decides that it is time for him to get married, so he organizes the Wife Project. During the course of the novel, Don grows up and has his first experience with romantic love. The Rosie Project sits within the tradition of the initiation novel, though the protagonist is 39 years old.
