50 influential fictional women in nerd history

Meg Murry

With the newly release A Wrinkle in Time, it’s worth our time to look back at Meg Murry and her importance to women throughout the years. The character taught young girls everywhere that they too could save the world.

I know it may be a foreign concept for some, but to women, it is a truly remarkable thing to see a woman saving the world. For so long, we had to watch all the boys do it, so when we get to see a young girl do the same thing, especially a young black girl as she is depicted in Ava DuVernay’s telling of the novel, it is truly a sight to see.

Meg, who is a troubled girl once her father disappears, goes on an incredible adventure to try and save her father, Dr. Alex Murry, who used a tesseract to travel through time and space. Throughout the entire story, she second guesses herself and those around her until the end, when she realizes that she’s the one who has to save her brother.

While the movie doesn’t make it as clear that the world is about to be taken over, in the novel, Meg, in essence, saves the world and watches herself as she does. And to read that (and now see it on screen) is truly something special.