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The Philosophical Significance of Soda Bubbles is a Better Than it Sounds Web Original novel. It begins as a typical Manic Pixie Dream Girl scenario, when Adam Malloy, the narrator, begins to be stalked by Macy Dawson, a shy, bookish girl who, after being diagnosed with leukemia, suddenly experiences a complete change in personality, becoming intensely bizarre and manic, and she uses her illness to guilt trip Adam into taking her on adventures. The scenario becomes partially a Deconstruction when Macy is revealed to be hiding her emotions behind her wacky persona in order to make sense of them, and from there the novel becomes a deconstruction of a Manic Pixie Dream Girl plot, though in the end it seems the aesops are the same.

The Philosophical Significance of Soda Bubbles can be read here

Contains examples of:

• Attention Whore: Macy admits this being the reason she dresses so strangely
• Coming of Age Story
• Crowning Moment of Heartwarming: Constantly
• Death by Newbery Medal: Macy
• Good Catholic: Adam
• Genki Girl: Macy, subverted
• Headphones Equal Isolation: Macy exhibits this
• Indecisive Deconstruction: Of a Manic Pixie Dreamgirl plot
• Manic Pixie Dreamgirl: Macy is a Deconstruction
• Noodle Implements: Adam gets a call from Macy at 4:00 instructing him to put on pants, she on his lawn with in a bikini with a fake ID for him, which she tells him he's using to buy her a cat.
• Tearjerker: Macy's death

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