Ready Player One Character Analysis

Ready Player One takes on character development with the gender issues in virtual reality game, OASIS. Characters are more likely developed in the virtual game; however, once the characters enter the real world, few of them face the different side of their identity. Gender issues directly connected to our society and the development of the characters in the novel. Therefore, the real version of the main characters, Wade, Aech, and Art3mis are greatly different from their avatars and they all differently developed throughout the novel, Wade Watts, the main protagonist of Ready Player One, displays drastically character development. Wade's story from the novel begins the time Wade lived with an aggressive and abusive aunt, but his life from the virtual game, OASIS is also not good as his real life. From chapter 14, the bomb that is set by IOI gets exploded in Wade's real house. After this event, Wade moves out of his town and becomes "an antisocial hermit. A recluse. A pale-skinned pop culture-obsessed geek. An agoraphobic shut-in, with no real friends, family, or
She is one of independent and powerful character in the novel. Art3mis is also more realistic about her appearance and personality within OASIS, compared to the real world because she thinks "No one ever looks anything like their avatar" (Cline 178). When Internet and gamer both meets, women are erased and their existence in game play(society) is smaller than men's existence. During the time Aech tries to cover her real appearance, Art3mis never loses her own identity even in the game playing. For example, Wade describes her as "The image of her that formed in my mind was the most obvious one, I pictured her as a physical manifestation of her avatar. I imagined her with the same face, eyes, hair, and body. Even though she told me repeatedly that in reality, she looked almost nothing like her avatar and that she wasn't nearly as attractive in person" (Cline