traumatised girl is bullied by her peers and relentlessly religiously abused by her mother and just wants to be a normal well liked girl? faces an event no one warned her about that scares her and in reponse her peers and mother terrorize her? and begins developing powers she doesnt understand and cant control? and another girl employs her boyfriend to help her feel normal except the girls that bullied her continue to traumatize her on what she felt was the best night of her life by killing the boy she was with and drenching her in the thing that rehashes the initial, horrific catalyst? carrie white didnt do anything wrong
Carrie White: *brutally kills all of her tormentors with her psychic powers*
Me:
So I reread the book lately for my podcast, and what’s interesting is that Carrie doesn’t even set out to kill anyone at first. She wants to make the sprinklers go off so that everyone else gets drenched the way she did. Carrie actually leaves the prom, goes and lies on the front lawn, then thinks, “Hey, I have psychic powers, and I can totally accomplish this reverse prank.” The only thing is the use of her psychic abilities degrades her ability to reason (no, really, that’s something King explicitly wrote out). So when she locks the doors on everyone and then sets off t he sprinklers, it causes an electrical fire. But Carrrie’s doing so much psychic work (you could say “carrying such a heavy mental load”) that she’s unable to reason beyond the fact that the fire will also punish these people who just laughed at her for getting covered in blood. And once that happens, Carrie’s like, “hey, fire’s such a great idea. You know who could use more of it? This entire fucking town.”
