Independence Day | Characters
Frank Bascombe, the narrator of The Sportswriter, is again the main character, this time several years after the conclusion of the earlier novel. Bascombe is no longer a sportswriter, but now works as a realtor in the New Jersey suburb of Haddam (modeled after Princeton, where Ford once taught), scene of the action in both novels. He still loves his ex-wife Ann who has remarried and carried their children away to Connecticut, and, unwilling to relinquish their past so easily, has purchased and moved into her old home. Frank now considers himself to be a useful member of society,...
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