The Role Of Adversity In Ernest Cline's Ready Player One

Wade Watts is a geeky orphan who whose determination may shift depending on the situation. Wade started out living in his aunt's trailer at the Stacks, with very little money and his only access to OASIS was on a school-issued laptop. He then learned of the hunt for Halliday’s egg, a hunt which the winner would receive the late James Halliday’s fortune and unlimited power in OASIS. Wade becomes obsessed with the hunt and abandons school altogether trying to win. Yet, this is not the only sidetrack he faces. In Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One, Wade’s main adversity and how he overcomes it shows that no matter how much you get distracted if you have the drive you can pull yourself back together.
In the novel, Wade’s greatest adversity is the number of times he becomes distracted from his main goal. Specifically, Wade loses time due to losing sight on what’s important. As Cline writes, “I would abandon the real world altogether until I found the egg”

“I was going to reach the Third Gate or die trying” (Cline 266). This shows that he so determined to win the competition, that he would risk death to get there. “What he deserved, I decided in that moment, was public humiliation and defeat. He deserved to have his ass kicked while the whole world watched.” (Cline 339). Although this could be considered another distraction, since at the moment they were currently trying to enter the Crystal Gate, he felt the need to make Sorrento face public humiliation. After everything, the IOI put them High Five through, they deserved to be overpowered in front of half of the OASIS population. His perseverance can relate to the speech “Perseverance” by James E. Frost “What’s the secret of it?’ I shall say simply this: ‘I get up when I fall down.’”(Frost). This relates because even after Sorrento and the IOI pressure Wade, and force him out of his home, he uses their actions to pull himself