John Wayne is a Quebecois student at Enfield Academy. Don is a man of serious emotional severity who finds a tenderness in his relationship with Joelle. Don is the man who ends up cleaning up messy situations when other housemates find themselves in trouble with the law or in the street. Don Gatelyĭonald Gately is a former burglar and organized-crime enforcer of enormous stature who helps as a live-in staff member of Ennet House. She is also the radio personality Madame Psychosis (a play on words for metempsychosis, the transmigration of the soul after death into another body of the same species). The novel finds her at the halfway house, Ennet House. Because of the pain, she turns to narcotics. Joelle Van Dyne is a horrifically beautiful woman, so beautiful that her image is too lovely to allow anyone to think of her empathically, leading her to a long life with literally no meaningful human connection. The novel centers around a film he made titled Infinite Jest which stars the PGOAT (Prettiest Girl of All Time), Joelle Van Dyne.

Married to Avril Incandenza and father to Hal, Oren and Mario, James Incandenza is a physicist who leaves the world of science to found Enfield Tennis Academy and to pursue après-garde filmmaking where he makes a name for himself. The novel's main plot revolves around Hal's relationship to thought and language. Hal eats a mysterious mold as a child that leads him to be a completely meta-cognitive person with little or no passion for much of anything at all. Hal's relationship to the suicide of his father has led many to conclude that Hal is a type for Shakespeare's Hamlet. Hal is the youngest of Avril Incandenza's three boys. The protagonist of the novel and a student at Enfield Tennis Academy.

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