Scripts for Misfits: A creative thesis comprised of short fiction.

Scripts for Misfits is a creative thesis comprised of three short stories set in Prince George. Thematically, 'Crazy Old Birds,' '1957 Taylor Dr.' and 'The Box-Shaped Man' are linked in their separate explorations of the positive and negative impacts that popular texts (cinematic or literary) can have on female characters. Ultimately, my thesis pushes the reader to examine how these fictional women come to not only navigate the largely negative sociopolitical ideologies that popular culture prescribes as appropriate gender roles, but also, Scripts for Misfits illustrates how individuals can work toward self-actualization by deconstructing the messages that have previously worked to contain them. --P. ii.