Ready Player One Lesson Plan

Why does Wade think he has trouble making friends in the real world?

Early in Level One, Wade tells readers a lot about his background and life story before he became famous for winning Halliday's egg (this is all told as a retrospective memoir). Wade thinks he struggled with interpersonal relationships in the real world because he was awkward and had unusual interests compared to his real-life peers. Wade also lacks confidence in his physical appearance and manner of physically interacting with others. He was bullied a lot as a kid in school and often treated as an outcast because of his personal oddities and lower social class, which led to his feeling of being an...