
Though Margaret had a relatively normal childhood, she started getting over-religious after her father got killed in a gun battle.

After Carrie came home from school and asked about menstruation, Margaret began quoting false scriptures saying menstruation was a sin. Described as a deluded, mentally abusive, and religiously fanatical mother, Margaret ensured that her daughter followed her religious beliefs. Sue watches as Carrie bleeds to death, but before she dies, Carrie forgives Sue. Carrie tries to kill Sue but stops after seeing her thoughts. Sue desperately starts looking for Carrie and soon finds her in a parking lot. While at the school prom, Chris pours pigs’ blood on Carrie, and in a fit of rage and sadness, Carrie begins to kill everyone present.Īfter burning down the school, Carrie passes a telepathic message to everyone in Chamberlain, and Sue also hears before Carrie begins to destroy buildings in the town. After the incident, Sue feels guilty for bullying Carrie and decides to atone by asking her boyfriend of six months, Tommy, to ask Carrie to prom. Snell is a primary character in ‘Carrie.’ After hearing Carrie scream in the shower room, Sue joins Chris and the other girls to mock and throw tampons at Carrie. Everyone begins laughing at Carrie, and in a fit of rage, she kills off everyone. On prom day, Chris exerts her revenge on Carrie by pouring pigs’ blood on her after rigging the king and queen vote. Meanwhile, Carrie discovers she has telekinesis. On realizing she got banned from going to the school prom, Chris plots a plan to ruin Carrie’s life. Because of a mentally unstable mother who did not teach her anything about menstruation, Carrie thought she would die.Īfter screaming, she attracted the attention of the other girls in the shower room, who were surprised to see that Carrie did not know she was menstruating this led some of the girls to mock her and throw tampons at her. Being a high school girl, Carrie experiences her first period. She is slightly overweight with a round face.

Chris’s enmity towards Carrie sets the stage for the disaster everyone experiences at the end of the story.Ĭarrietta White is the main character of the novel ‘Carrie.’ Carrie is a shy and lonely blond-haired girl with brown eyes. Among those who ridiculed Carrie was Chris, a girl who hated Carrie for existing. In the novel, Carrie has no friends this translates to a life of torment from her peers.
