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Frank Bascombe

This person's son dies a few years before this story begins. As a result, this person has numerous affairs, stops sharing feelings with the spouse, and becomes divorced.

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This character is living the life she always wanted and thriving after divorcing. This character is a golf pro at the local country club.

Ralph

This character is the child who died because of Reye's Syndrome.

Vicki

This character becomes the main character's girlfriend after the main character's divorce, however, things end up not working out between them.

Walter

This character befriends the main character and tries to take their relationship a step further, but when the main character rejects this, this character commits suicide.

Herb

This wheelchair-bound character is interviewed by the sportswriter as a human interest story because this character has become a motivation for his ex football teammates.

Wade

This character decides to quit...

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