Carrie White

**Carrietta N. White**, best known as **Carrie White** is the main protagonist of Stephen King’s first horror novel, Carrie.

She is allegedly the only daughter of Margaret and Ralph White, even though it hints that Ralph may have had other children with different women. Carrie is also the granddaughter of John and Judith Brigham, the step-granddaughter of Harold Allison and the great-granddaughter of Sadie Cochran.

## Biography

For all of her lonely childhood and misunderstood teenage life, Carrie an only child whose father abandoned his family and later died in a construction accident was disciplined for being taken by "curses" and secretly abused, beaten into submission and mistreated by her mentally ill and religiously fanatical mother for everything on a daily basis. Later Carrie was constantly picked on and mistreated by her classmates because of her differences. Since 1st grade Carrie had been the school's scapegoat and outcast. Indeed, Carrie was at the bottom of the social pyramid but what no one knew, not even her mother was that Carrie White was no ordinary girl as she had been blessed or cursed with hidden telekinetic and telepathic powers that were dormant during her youth but brought to full force by the time she was in high school after she unexpectedly had her first period in the girls' locker room. This incident would cause a chain reaction of events to occur that would lead to not only Carrie's demise but also hundreds of others, whether guilty or innocent. Since Carrie had no previous knowledge about the concept of menstruation the students rejection of Carrie became even fiercer. Tragically when a so-called "prank" at her senior prom involving pig’s blood pushed her to her breaking point and beyond her limits Carrie finally snapped, lost her sanity and used the wild talents she possessed to seek her hostile revenge to make her bullies and enemies pay and suffer for their cruel actions. Carrie mercilessly eliminated and killed anybody who had ever hurt, neglected or underestimated her before returning home after leaving a path of destruction in her wake to ultimately confront and finally kill her crazy and homicidal mother before dying on that very same night that ended up making national history. In the end, an entire town was destroyed taking 440 lives with it.

In one iteration of her story Carrie died as a result of her injuries. In the second iteration Carrie survived The Black Prom and the trauma associated with it. She then made plans to move to Florida and start her life with the help of Sue Snell who felt sorry for her. In the third iteration it is unclear if Carrie survived or not and is it left to the imagination. But regardless of the iteration Carrie has been vilified by the surviving residents of Chamberlain, Maine only because she chose to fight back against the constant, collective tormenting and bullying in a way that most people cannot understand or comprehend.

## Novel

### Birth

Carrie was born on September 21st, 1963 at 10:04 AM in Chamberlain, Maine. Before Carrie's father, Ralph White died both Carrie’s parents had left the local Baptist church many years before, because they believed that Baptists were doing the work of "The Antichrist". But they never found any other church in the area that was up to their traditional standards so they held worship at home instead. When Ralph passed away her mother, Margaret White survived off the money from the insurance and by working at the local laundry.

### Childhood

The level of Carrie's childhood and the height of constant and verbal abuse she endured at the hands of her mother, peers and fellow classmates were far more extreme. For example, at Christian Summer Camp her comrades played pranks on her such as hiding all her underwear, putting a snake in her shoe and short sheeting her bunk-bed. Later when Carrie urinated in the bushes on the camp's hiking trip and came into contact with poison ivy after wiping with the wrong leaves the kids called her a "scratch a\*\*". When she swam in the camp's lake they ducked her head underwater. At first it was funny until she couldn't get her breath but the kids kept calling her a "scratch a\*\*" and Carrie got so panicky that she began to scream for air. She had even tried to take part in the other camp's activities but the jokes never stopped playing on "old praying, fart face Carrie" until she had come home on the bus a week early, her eyes red and socket from weeping. She was picked up by her mother at the station and was sent to the closet to pray for hours.
Once the classmates found a love letter from Carrie to a boy named Flash Bobby Pickett and the students made hundreds of copies of it and pasted it all over the school's campus for all to see. One year Carrie was given the cruel nickname "pudding pop" by everyone and the next year she became known by the cruel nickname "pizza face" by everyone. A boy named Billy Preston put peanut butter in her hair when she fell asleep in study hall, the books deliberately knocked from her desk, the pinches, the pokes, the wedgies, the legs outstretched in the cafeteria aisles to trip her, the obscene notes tucked into her purse when she wasn't looking. These were all the things Carrie faced day in and day out. Once when Carrie was at the school cafeteria she bent down to pray and the seam of her skirt ripped that the crack of her butt was being shown causing everyone to laugh at her. In sports Carrie was always missing the ball even in kickball or clumsily running into the net during volleyball. Carrie was also uncoordinated in her movements and once fell flat on her face during dance class in sophomore year and chipped a tooth. One time Chris Hargensen called her house phone after school from the downtown Kelly Fruit Company where all the popular teens hung out to ask her if she knew that pig's poop could spell "C-A-R-R-I-E".

At school Carrie was made fun of by her peers and classmates into submission on a daily basis. At home Carrie's life was just as awful. Margaret didn't allow Carrie to have any friends, take interest in things such as celebrities, fashion, listen to pop, country, hip-hop, R&B, jazz or rock music, sleep with a pillow or even take showers as Margaret believed everything was bad, evil, sinful and godless Carrie only took baths. Behind closed doors Carrie was beaten by her mother into submission on a daily basis and regularly slapped Carrie in the face and grabbed, dragged, violently shoved and locked her into a "prayer" closet. Especially on the day she came home after the shower incident with the implication that this was one out of many instances Carrie was forced into the closet. Also Carrie is sometimes locked in the closet by her mother for days on end without food, water or even bathroom breaks. Carrie is so controlled by her mother she is even forced to wear unbecoming and outdated clothes and forbidden to wear the color red as Margaret believed that red was "the Devil's color". Now there are instances where Carrie's special abilities manifested all by itself without her even trying. It was usually triggered by her own inner frustration and private misery and would flare whenever she lost her temper.

For example, when Carrie was almost 3-years-old she encountered a young and beautiful girl named Estelle Horan who was sunbathing topless. Seeing this Carrie asked about her "dirtypillows" a phrase Carrie's mother installed into her head referring to breasts. When Margaret caught Carrie talking to Estelle Margaret severely berated Carrie and forced, grabbed, dragged, violently shoved and locked her into the house with her. Suddenly a shower of hail fell on the Whites' bungalow while Carrie was being harshly abused by Margaret. Minutes later a rain of stones pelted against their home causing severe damage on the Whites' property and a large mahogany dinner table was sent flying through one of the house's window shattering the glass into pieces. Carrie's powers were strong even when she was a small child and she was also able to read other people's minds and inner thoughts when they were close enough to her namely Miss Desjardin the gym teacher who secretly felt both disgusted and pity for the young girl.

### Teenagehood

At the age of 15 Carrie unexpectedly had her first period while taking a shower in the girls' locker room after gym class. Due to her mother's religious believes Margaret refused to discuss the concept of menstruation with Carrie resulting in Carrie to think she was internally bleeding to death. The idea that this could be the girl's first period did not occur to Carrie's female classmates. As with everything else Carrie was viciously teased and mercilessly bullied by the other girls in her PE class who all laughed hysterically as they threw tampons, small towels and sanitary napkins at her while loudly chanting "Plug it up!" over and over again non-stop.

Miss Desjardin came out of her office to stop the commotion and to stop the hysterical Carrie from panicking Miss Desjardin slapped her across the face which caused a light bulb above them to explode and a bucket of baseball bats to knock over all by itself. Miss Desjardin calmed Carrie down and reassured her everything was going to be okay and that she wasn't dying. Afterwards she explained to Carrie what menstruation was and told her it was a natural part of womanhood.

More of Carrie's telekinetic abilities were demonstrated on that same day. The assistant principal, Mr. Morton who dismissed Carrie for the day kept calling her "Cassie". Carrie yelled her correct name and his ashtray fell off his desk as if it moved by itself.

Soon after that while she walked home a 5-year-old boy named Tommy Erbter verbally harassed Carrie while riding past her on his bicycle. Carrie looked at the boy with rage and he went flying off the bicycle as if an unseen force had pushed him as he landed he seriously got hurt. This surprised both Tommy and Carrie who walked away as if nothing had happened. Later that day after Margaret found out about the incident from the school she cruelly punished Carrie by beating her with a Bible forced her on her knees with her to pray and locked her in the closet against her will for hours to ask God for "forgiveness" for having committed "the original sin" of becoming a woman due to showering naked with the other girls at school which Margaret forbade.

A few days later at school when the incident had died down Carrie was unexpectedly approached by Tommy Ross who asked her to go to the prom with him. Tommy was a talented and handsome jock who unlike most of the popular crowd was actually a very nice and well-meaning teenager. Once, Tommy had even been approached by the Boston Red Sox team who wanted to recruit him after he graduated. He also was the boyfriend of Sue Snell who was one of the popular girls and a bully of Carrie. Sue felt guilty for her mistreatment towards Carrie and honestly wanted to make it up to her by becoming her friend and deciding to sacrifice herself from going to the prom and let Carrie take her potential prom date. This was a very good thing because Carrie also had a secret crush on Tommy. Although she originally got skeptical at first and went against the idea Carrie's hesitation was quickly forgotten and she subsequently accepted Tommy's invitation because she just couldn't resist the offer at the chance to finally experience being treated as if she fit in even if it was only for just one night. Carrie was very nervous, excited and happy all at the same time and was determined to keep her promise to Tommy and go. But when Carrie told her mother about the prom offer Margaret threw tea onto Carrie's face and ranted. She told Carrie that the boys always come after the blood and that all boys want from girls is "sex" how they all like to take virgins into their cars to do dirty, ungodly and blasphemous things with them. Margaret finally told Carrie that she would not allow her daughter to engage in such "sinfulness" after all she'd been taught. She then proceeded to slap Carrie across the face and ordered her to go in the closet and pray but Carrie refused. As Margaret tried to hit Carrie again Carrie stood up to her mother and stopped Margaret's hand in mid-air with her telekinesis preventing the hand from reaching her face. Carrie told her mother that she wanted to live her own life and that things were going to change and be different and that she was going to the prom with or without Margaret's permission and that no one would stop her, this was the ultimate blasphemy for her.

On the evening of the prom Carrie prepared herself for the night and tried on the elegant and authentic prom dress she made. The dress was a thick fabric of red crushed velvet with a princess waistline, Juliet sleeves and allowed her cleavage to slightly show. Carrie also tried on matching high-heel shoes and a lovely corsage to complete the look. For the very first time in her life Carrie honestly looked and felt pretty which was alien to her. When Margaret first saw her daughter dressed up in the red dress and revealing her "dirtypillows" she immediately ordered her to take off the dress and burn it and then she demanded that they do penance together and pray afterward. Carrie stood her ground and refused. To manipulate Carrie into staying at home Margaret began to physically hurt herself as she scratched and clawed at own her face, pulled her hair out and punched herself in the mouth causing herself to bleed a little. Carrie ignored her mother's crazy actions and even used her powers to physically slide her mother out the door of her bedroom and shut it in order to get ready without being distracted. Later that night Tommy picked up Carrie for the prom as he promised while Margaret stayed by herself and prayed silently in another room.

When arriving at the prom Carrie was dazzled by all the glamour surrounding her and as the night progressed Carrie's nerves began to fade and she felt comfortable while opening up to her peers and even made a few small jokes with some of the prom goers who finally treated her equally and with respect for once. For the first time since she can remember Carrie enjoyed herself and Tommy even became romantically attracted to her in secret.

Soon, Miss Desjardin came over to the table at which Carrie sat and told her the story about her own prom experience. However, little did Carrie or anyone else know was that she was walking into a vile prank initiated by another girl in her class, Chris Hargensen the main leader of Carrie's tormentors who ruthlessly bullied her as well as all her life. Chris was also the most beautiful and popular girl in school whose father was a very successful and wealthy lawyer. Chris believed that Carrie was to blame for her being banned from going to the prom after she became the ringleader in humiliating Carrie in the girls' locker room when she received her first period. So as for revenge Chris had her abusive and greaser boyfriend, Billy Nolan who was the leader of a dangerous gang in Chamberlain and a few of their friends partake in the plot against Carrie to embarrass her in front of the entire school. Chris had Billy viciously slaughter two pigs at a local farm and drain their blood into two big metal buckets. Then Billy placed the buckets over the school's stage on a high rafter beam completely hidden out of sight. Chris then had her friends rig the ballots for prom king and queen to ensure that Carrie and Tommy would win the contest. Chris and Billy eventually arrived at the school unseen and quietly lurked outside the gym patiently. Just as planned Carrie and Tommy were announced as the winners. A lush dog fur collar was thrown over Carrie's shoulders and Tommy was given a scepter wrapped in aluminum foil. Then the two were immediately ushered up onto the stage to be crowned. But when the crowd began to sing the school song as tradition this was the cue for an unseen Chris to pull the rope cord that caused the two buckets above to tip over and drench Carrie and Tommy with the rotting pig's blood while they sat on the thrones for the king and queen.

Seconds after the blood dump one of the buckets fell on top of Tommy's head knocking him out instantly and possibly even killing him. To Chris's delight the prank was followed by a rain of cruel laughter in mass hysteria by everyone in the prom including the teachers and chaperones. Carrie thinking additionally that Tommy had been purposely killed for taking her to prom was overcome with humiliation and utter grief. She clumsily attempted to flee the blood-splattered thrones while struggling to keep her balance. When Carrie hopped off the stage's platform Miss Desjardin came rushing towards her with a lying compassion. Carrie could see with her telepathic powers where the real Miss Desjardin was and how she was still laughing like everyone else. Before she could reach her Carrie looked at Miss Desjardin's direction and she flew backward as if she was being pushed by an unseen force. Miss Desjardin hit the wall next to the stage so hard that the impact gave her a bloody nose. Before Carrie could make it to the exit she was deliberately tripped by someone in the crowd and fell causing the laughter to grow even louder. Eventually, Carrie made her way through the exit and out the lobby doors losing both her high-heel shoes as if she were Cinderella fleeing from the ball. Once outside and alone Carrie began to weep upon the grass on the front lawn of the school's campus. Tricked once again Carrie was going to simply accept what had happened and shamefully return back to her home to admit to her mother she'd been right after all. She was ready to face more hours locked in that dark lonely closet praying endlessly for the rest of her life as she had always done before.

These last thoughts made Carrie suddenly snap. She changed her mind realizing that she had a special gift to use as a secret weapon. Her telekinesis would give her the ability to make her tormentors pay for what they had done. They were in the palm of her hand. They were under her thumb and in her power. She had the "POWER!!!" and the word echoed in her mind.

In a cold rage Carrie's mind finally snapped and she returned to the school barefooted and with a sadistic vengeance and a thirst for bloody revenge. She saw how Tommy had fallen from the throne to the ground with people surrounding him and as she stood safely outside the auditorium she decided to give everyone a taste of their own medicine 10 times fold. Carrie set about locking all the prom goers inside the gym teachers and students alike by telekinetically sealing the gymnasium doors slamming them shut all at once.

Hearing this many people inside panicked and that started a stampede. They rushed to the exits and tried to bang on the doors hammering them and pounding on them to open them but Carrie's powers were far too strong they were trapped! Carrie then peered into the windows and watched students' faces smashed up against the glass like fish in an aquarium seeing this made her laugh. Next she looked up and turned on the sprinkler system to wet everyone and ruin their expensive tuxedos and dress the only regret she had was it was raining water and not blood. Suddenly one of the band musicians on stage was severely electrocuted by the large amp that had gotten soaked from the water. This made Carrie laugh again and she used her mind to break the backstage high-voltage power cables by picturing them in her head and threw them crackling on the wet stage causing purple sparks to fly into the air. Two students on the platform were also immediately electrocuted the lead band member, Josie Vreck who was one of the loudest ones to laughed at Carrie began to convulse uncontrollably when he touched the microphone and volts of electricity violently shot through his body. A girl named Rhonda Simard busted out in a crazed puppet dance when she accidentally stepped on one of the cables causing her prom gown to catch fire and burst into flames setting her entirely ablaze.

Carrie then telekinetically used the cables like slithering snakes and flung them back and forth into the air painfully whipping people, shocking them and breaking their skin. She then dropped them upon the wet ground below. When the cables writhed in the puddles of water there was a violent flash like lightning and everyone was screaming all at once as they were killed. Once the hot sparks from the cables caught onto the prom's backdrop mural causing it to completely catch fire the hot flames quickly spread throughout the entire gym. Carrie mercilessly left the remaining prom goers trapped inside with the now-dead Tommy to be consumed by the hellish inferno created by her telekinetic abilities and the rest was history. However, before moving completely on the town emergency whistle went off and startled her. As a result Carrie's mind lost sight of the gymnasium doors for a second and some of the prom goers almost got out. But Carrie used her power and slammed them shut again catching somebody's fingers to her it felt like Dale Norbert in the jamb severing one of them.

Despite Carrie's hostile revenge a few lucky students and Miss Desjardin were smart enough to escape through fire exit down the auditorium's corridor in the hallway next to the gym. It was the one and only exit that Carrie forgot to seal. The survivors got out just in time before being electrocuted and burned to death with everyone else still inside. When Carrie left the campus to return to her home she made sure no one could put out her fire or tame her flames as she opened all the fire hydrants near the area to prevent the fire trucks from helping or saving anyone stuck inside. Eventually the gym exploded a half-hour later demolishing the entire school.

Carrie's extremely powerful telekinetic abilities initiated a highly destructive rampage causing much worse disasters in downtown Chamberlain than at the high school. As Carrie walked home barefoot she left a path of destruction and death in her wake she used her mind as hard as she could and made local gas mains at numerous corner stations explode and let the broken pumps leak the spilled gasoline into the roads. While a male bystander was walking nearby he carelessly dropped his lighted cigarette on the ground not realizing the streets were covered in gas. This caused more explosions that destroyed and demolished the town shops and local businesses. Carrie also used her powers to cause several fire hydrants to explode flooding the streets. Carrie then brought down the power lines and when the snapped power wires hit the water and gas-soaked pavement it ignited several wildfires that burned down the majority of the town's neighborhoods. Countless of bystanders were killed in the streets and electrocuted by the wires of the fallen power lines as they evacuated from their burning homes. By this point the entire heart of Chamberlain was up in flames taking literally hundreds of lives with it.

Also most importantly Carrie let loose a strange side effect of her abilities, "broadcast telepathy" which means that anyone within a certain radius of the disaster area suddenly found themselves learning about the destruction at Ewen High and downtown Chamberlain. They also learned from this telepathy that it was Carrie White causing the destruction regardless of if they knew or not who Carrie even was. During the entire event Carrie seemed completely catatonic and was believed to even be smiling as she moved along. She then went into a church to pray while at the same time objects from the church such as pews, hymnals and a communion set were thrown.

Carrie finally made it back home. With her telekinesis she made the front door swing wide open and she destroyed all the items in the house as she entered the doorway. Clocks, dishes, plates, pictures and other religious objects where tossed and thrown into the air breaking and shattering as they fell to the floor. Carrie still covered in blood, much of it being her own by now and one of her bare feet was bleeding from stepping on a broken bottle in the streets had the intention of finally killing her mother who had been waiting for her daughter to return to her. Due to seeing that orange haze in the sky from the flames burning all throughout the town, Margaret had come to believe the Devil had truly come to Chamberlain to collect Carrie's soul. The only way Margaret could save her condemned daughter was to kill her before the Devil did. As Carrie approached her mother bloody and dirty Margaret sat before Carrie and then told her about her miscarriage and the true story of how she considered killing herself after having premarital intercourse with Ralph. She also confessed that Carrie was conceived by marital rape and that she was a "punishment" from God. Margaret thinking that Carrie was possessed by the Devil himself carefully took out Ralph's old kitchen butcher knife from the folds of her dress so Carrie couldn't see. She told Carrie that she had tried to kill her twice before during the first few years of Carrie's life but she "backslid". As Carrie fell down to her knees to weep and pray with her mother Margaret stabbed her daughter in the shoulder the blade went all the way into Carrie's shoulder with only the handle visible. Margaret had hit an artery causing Carrie much pain as she began to bleed heavily. Angry by her mother's actions Carrie decided it was time to teach her mother a lesson too. So in return Carrie used her powers to slow her mother's heart down painfully and very slowly until eventually stopping it completely and killing her by giving her a heart attack. With Margaret dead Carrie then left her home as the whole neighborhood street was on fire consuming all the houses on the block one after the other and sure enough the wildfire eventually reached the Whites' bungalow and nearly burned it completely down as well.

Carrie with the butcher knife still stuck deep in her shoulder to the hilt wandered aimlessly until she approached The Cavalier roadhouse where her father drunk himself into a stupor before raping Margaret. It was amazing how she kept going despite her wound but she still had one last thing to do to complete her final destruction. Carrie arrived just in time to catch Chris and Billy fleeing the establishment after making love inside. Here Carrie could feel them almost taste them with her telepathy. She faced the two who she needed to finally kill most of all before the night was over before she was completely finished with her rampage of revenge.

Knowing she was responsible for what had happened to Ewen High and downtown Chamberlain Billy tried to run Carrie down with his car to kill her. However, Carrie felt the car approaching and wrestled the on-coming vehicle with her telekinesis and violently slammed it full force into the roadhouse. Billy's nose was broken and his torso was crushed into the steering wheel. Chris was immediately thrown face-first into the dashboard busting the glass windshield. The car exploded killing both Chris and Billy instantly and also destroying the building starting yet another major fire that burned all through the parking lot.

After the explosion Carrie became weak and collapsed in the middle of the lot out of exhaustion from overusing her powers and the blood loss caused by her wound. Sue who had been following the trail of destruction caused by Carrie in hopes of tracking her down to stop her rampage finally arrived a short time later only to find Carrie nearly dead on the ground in the burning lot. Carrie in pain and slowly dying from her injuries blamed Sue for the prank. But before Carrie died Sue invited Carrie into her mind to see that she had no part in planning the nasty joke that occurred earlier that evening and just paired her up with Tommy as amends for the locker room incident. Carrie found that Sue was innocent and never really felt any personal hatred towards her. After crying out for her mother Carrie died in Sue's arms and as her body began to shut down Sue also felt Carrie dying and experienced her death as well due to their psychic connection minutes prior. Seconds after Sue got up to fetch for help but could feel herself miscarrying though she initially thought that she was apparently having her period. Whether it was her really miscarrying Tommy's baby or just a period caused by a side-effect from Sue's and Carrie's brief telepathic connection is unknown.

### The Aftermath

The Black Prom tragedy hits the nation bigger than the JFK assassination. Carrie's story becomes a controversial and highly discussed subject. An autopsy was performed on Carrie's body. The coroner's reported lists of Carrie's brain had a different cell pattern compared to other brains. Scientists began to take the concept of telekinesis more seriously. People all over the world were also scared that another telekinetic child could be born. Miss Desjardin one of the few lucky survivors resigned due to her guilt for not reaching out to Carrie, for not preventing what happened on prom night and secretly for having approved of the evil prank in the end even stating that she would rather commit suicide than to teach again. Mr. Grayle also resigned for not preventing more of what had happened. Meanwhile the authorities and skeptics were investigating and trying to figure out what exactly happened in Chamberlain, Maine that caused 440 people to die. It's a rather big mystery due to the fact Carrie killed almost all of the witnesses in her mass homicide and with so many people dead and so much destroyed outerly and innerly Chamberlain became a virtual ghost town and even a popular tourist attraction because of Carrie´s actions. Sue went on to write a memoir about her involvement with Carrie White. She warns her readers to never forget about Carrie or the events that occurred in Chamberlain or something like it could happen all over again. Carrie's body was taken in for examination because of what had happened. After that she was buried and the story closes with a letter written by a hill-billy woman in Tennessee whose baby daughter is developing incredibly strong advanced telekinetic abilities as well. However, unlike Margaret White she expresses a fascination with her daughter's natural abilities and predicts that her daughter will become a "real world beater someday". This may be hinting that Carrie's soul has been passed on to a happy family, something she always wanted.

## 1976 Film

The 1976 film of Carrie starred Sissy Spacek. Here, Carrie had long strawberry blonde hair and clear skin.

### Biography

Carrie was raised isolated from society by her single mother, Margaret White after her father, Ralph White left them for another woman.

### Life

One day after PE class Carrie gets confronted by her classmates and gets her first period. Unaware of this Carrie believes she is bleeding to death and begs for help from the other girls. Carrie is however mocked by Chris Hargensen, Sue Snell, Norma Watson and Helen Shyres as they throw tampons all over her ignoring her desperation.

Miss Collins arrives and stops them expelling the girls from the locker room. As Carrie screams uncontrollably the lightbulb above them explodes much for Chris and Norma's thrill. Miss Collins is force to slap her on the face and apologizes comforting her. After Carrie takes a shower she is taken by Miss Collins to the principal's office and the incident is spread around with some kids mocking her as she waits to be called in. In anger Carrie causes Mr. Morton’s ashtray to fall down after he keeps calling her "Cassie". Miss Collins suggest that it would be better for her to walk home. As Carrie walks home a boy across her yells "Creepy Carrie" and is telekinetically knocked down from his bicycle. Carrie arrives home and finds out that Margaret had been informed of the incident. Carrie questions why she was not told and she tells her that the other girls laughed at her over her ignorance. Ignoring her sorrow a cold-hearted Margaret simply forces Carrie to pray because she is still a girl who according to her twisted beliefs was susceptible to temptation. Carrie is dragged inside the closet where she is locked in and forced to pray which she does after all. Carrie than thanks her mother and goes upstairs. In her bedroom Carrie angrily causes a mirror to shatter and manages to rebuilt it before her mother can come in. The next day Carrie sees from afar that Miss Collins is confronting the girls over the incident in the shower. As Mr. Fromm reads a poem written by the popular student, Tommy Ross and sarcastically expresses his distaste for it Carrie shyly comments that she thinks Tommy's writing is "beautiful". Carrie goes to the library to search about "miracles" and is led to better understanding of her gift. As she researches Carrie is approached by Tommy and is asked to go to the prom with him. Scared, Carrie simply runs away from him. Miss Collins later finds Carrie alone and talks to her. Carrie reveals she is asked to the prom by Tommy and her suspicions that "they" were planning to humiliate her once again. Miss Collins encourages the girl by emphasizing how pretty she actually looks. Tommy visits Carrie once again insisting in taking her to the prom. Afraid that her mother would come and caught him at their door Carrie accepts it at last. Carrie then tells Margaret about Tommy, the prom and remarks that he is a good boy. Margaret reacts by throwing tea on Carrie's face and tries to force her into praying in the closet once again because boys always came after the "blood". Carrie however refuses and as her powers causes their windows to shut is called a "witch" by a horrified Margaret. Carrie explains that she was actually born with telekinesis. Margaret mentions that her father was taken by sin and Carrie remarks that he had fled with another woman something everybody around them know. Carrie insists she will go to the prom and that things are about to change for them. Carrie than makes herself a dress for the night. At prom night Margaret approaches Carrie stating that she knows she would wear "red" while her dress is actually pink. Margaret insists for Carrie to stay and they can burn the dress because her classmates will laugh at her. As Tommy arrives Carrie telekinetically pushes her mother onto the bed to contain her and leaves after saying that she loves her. At the prom Carrie is well received by Frieda Jason who compliments her dress while Norma mocks her and the others notice how different she looks. Tommy invites Carrie for a dance which she initially declines. Miss Collins later approaches them and compliments Carrie telling her about an awful but "magical" experience in her teenagehood at the night of her own prom. Carrie then agrees into dancing with Tommy, On the right of the moment Carrie has her first kiss with him. Carrie then questions on why she is there and he tells her that its because she liked his poem. When Carrie receives the ballot for king and queen she notices that they are there as candidates. Reluctant to vote for themselves Tommy persuades her to do so. Much for her rejoice the couple are elected king and queen of the prom. Tommy and Carrie go to the stage, she is crowned in tears and notices as Sue appears and is expelled from the prom by Miss Collins. Carrie's pleasure comes to an end when a bucket of pig’s blood is spilled on her much to her horror. Tommy is hit on the head by the bucket that was above them and falls dead. Carrie then remembers her mother's ominous words that she would be scorned once again, Miss Collin's kind words of confidence and the incident in the shower as in her mind everyone at the prom laughs at her. Enraged, Carrie uses her powers to close every door of the prom locking everyone in and turn the lights red. As Norma, Freddy DeLois and Kenny Garson leave Carrie forces the door they opened, suffocating Freddy and Kenny as Norma screamed for help. Focusing on the fire hose, Carrie opened it, washing Norma and everyone away from the door creating a turmoil in the prom. With the water from the firehose Carrie knocks Norma down and electrifies Mr. Fromm and Mr. Morton. Miss Collins gets lost among the turmoil and calls for Carrie the girl possessed by rage causes a basketball backboard to fell on Miss Collins killing her. Carrie leaves as Mr. Fromm burns to his death which sets the whole prom on fire. As she walks home Chris attempts to run her down with Billy Nolan’s car but Carrie attacks her by causing the car to keel over and explode killing her and Billy. Carrie arrives home and finds the house filled with lighted candles and washes the blood away bursting in tears. Margaret then appears to seemingly comfort Carrie telling her daughter that she was conceived after Ralph got drunk and they made love which Margaret regretted. Margaret invites Carrie into one last prayer and as the girl recites the Lord's prayer comforting in her arms Margaret stabs her in the back. Carrie rolls downstairs unable to stand up and run as her insane mother approaches her ready to kill the "demon".

Carrie then throws the kitchen's knives onto her mother pinning her to the doorway. Carrie witness as Margaret agonizes to her death and screams in terror over her loss. Carrie's powers then manifests on the loose bringing the house down over her. Carrie rushes to her closet carrying her dead mother and stays there as the house comes down dying.

### Aftermath

Carrie killed 73 people on the night of the prom. The school is rebuilt elsewhere in Chamberlain, Maine and the ruins of the old school are still there. Additionally that part of the town is deserted. Finally the incident also becomes in time some kind of "urban legend" in the town. Carrie's father had another daughter named Rachel Lang who was also a carrier of telekinesis.

## Trivia

* Carrie is also one of the few Stephen King protagonists to die. However unlike the novel and its 1976 film adaptation she survives in the 2 later films.

* Carrie is not killed in the second adaptation in 2002. The 2013 adaptation later teased the possibility that Carrie was not dead when the ending showed her tombstone cracking apart indicating that there is possibly still life within her body assuming she was ever buried.

* Stephen King states that the character of Carrie White was based off of 2 real girls who he knew in his adolescent years while in grade school both girls were bullied very much and one of them like Carrie had a fanatically religious mother.

* In the 2013 remake Carrie was born in 1995 and was buried in 2013 meaning the film is set in 2013.

* In the 2013 remake Carrie mentioned that she inherited her telekinetic power from either her father, Ralph White or from her great-grandmother, Sadie Cochran who was the mother of Judith Brigham, the mother-in-law of John Brigham and the grandmother of Margaret White. Sadie like her great-granddaughter was telekinetic. She died of heart failure at the age of 66 possibly from straining herself with her own power.

* Despite having psychic powers Carrie can be classified as a non-genetic class Metahuman, Superhuman, Superpowered Human and Homo Superior.

* Carrie was killed by her mother who immediately got killed by a heart attack through Carrie's telekinesis and brought back to life by her best friend, Sue Snell in the second adaptation of 2002 and it is hinted that she lives in the 2013 adaptation as well when cracks appear on her gravestone in the closing sequence.

* Carrie saves Miss Desjardin and Sue Snell from dying in the 2013 remake.

* In the 2013 film adaptation when Carrie tells Sue that her baby is a girl and saves her life from the destruction of her house it is possible that Carrie now treats Sue as a friend.

* Sue places a white rose on Carrie's grave in the 2013 remake this is possibly hinting to Sue thinks that Carrie was truly innocent and that if the period incident never happened Carrie wouldn't have the thought to kill them all.

* In contrast with the novel Carrie is shown as much more charismatic and beautiful in the film adaptations.

* Carrie may have been the basis for Harold Lauder another character in Stephen King's works during the 1970s. Both are heavyset, ugly, and acne-ridden. Other than gender a notable difference is that Carrie had the same appearance throughout the novel while Harold lost weight and lost his acne but his ugliness turned inward. Both their rises as villains involved burning down a building Carrie destroying the school and Harold destroying Nick Andros' house.