The main character is revealed progressively throughout the story. Both his personality and life are steadily shown through how he interacts with other players in the OASIS, how he cannot leave the planet that his school is located on, and how he describes himself in this novel. The reader discovers Wade’s name when he talks about his parents in the beginning of the book where he says, “My mom once told me that my dad had given me an alliterative name, Wade Watts, because he thought it sounded like the secret identity of a superhero… Knowing that made me think he must have been a cool guy, despite how he died.” (15) This statement displays him living without a father and later revealed, a mother. Another piece of information the reader is given