Why the hatred??? Every class has a goofball/walnut head; who ends up at MIT and finds proof of unprovable theorems, solves equations thought to be unsolvable and finds solutions that are not only feasible, they actually work! Caulfield is actually several classes ahead of his age in brain -power, he just needs his maturity to catch up with him. And, he reads! And not just the drivvel that passes for reading material for his age. He reads literature far beyond his age.
Why the hatred??? Every class has a goofball/walnut head; who ends up at MIT and finds proof of unprovable theorems, solves equations thought to be unsolvable and finds solutions that are not only feasible, they actually work! Caulfield is actually several classes ahead of his age in brain -power, he just needs his maturity to catch up with him. And, he reads! And not just the drivvel that passes for reading material for his age. He reads literature far beyond his age.