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Carrie

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Carrie	comment	Published in 1974, Carrie is the first published novel by author Stephen King.High school outcast Carrie White has no friends at school and is endlessly tormented by her classmates and by her own mother, a raving Christian fanatic named Margaret. After being humiliated in the school shower while having her first period, Carrie learns that she possesses potent telekinetic powers which allow her to move objects and knock people down with her mind. After one of the shower bullies, Chris Hargensen, gets suspended and barred from the upcoming prom for the shower incident involving Carrie, she comes to blame Carrie for the situation and vows to work out a suitable revenge.In the meantime, Sue Snell — another of the suspended bullies from the shower — feels bad about what she and her friends did to Carrie and asks her athlete boyfriend, Tommy Ross, to invite Carrie to the prom as a form of atonement. Chris finds out about this and sees an opening for one of the greatest pranks in school history: she and her friends will rig the ballots for prom queen so that Carrie wins, then dump a bucket of pig's blood on her head in front of the entire senior class and thus humiliate her on the best night of her life.Unfortunately, this proves to be the worst mistake that anyone could ever have made, as Carrie proceeds to turn her power into a horrifying weapon, with devastating consequences not only for the bullies, but for everyone in the town of Chamberlain.While Carrie was a bestseller that launched Stephen King's career, today it's better known for its assorted adaptations in various mediums. The 1976 film adaptation was directed by Brian De Palma, written by Lawrence D. Cohen, and starred Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, Nancy Allen, and John Travolta. It is by far the most famous of the bunch, regarded by critics as a landmark film, one of the best horror films of The '70s, and one of the best feature film adaptations of any of King's stories, to the point where King himself invoked feels that it's better than the book. The film became a major success for United Artists, as it ended up making over $33 million at the U.S. box office on a budget of just $1.8 million.note In 2016 dollars, over $126 million on a $7.6 million budget. The ending is notable for being perhaps the first use of a "shock" ending in a horror film, which has since become a staple of the genre. Film critics welcomed Carrie with immense acclaim (unusual for a horror film even today), which helped it gain a Hugo Award and two Academy Award nominations: one for Spacek for Best Actress, and the other a Best Supporting Actress nod for Laurie.note They lost to, respectively, Faye Dunaway and Beatrice Straight from Network. Lawrence D. Cohen (the writer of the 1976 movie) put together the musical adaptation in The '80s. After a limited run at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in England that got a mixed reception, it debuted on Broadway on May 12, 1988 — where it met with scathing reviews. The $7+ million production quickly became one of the biggest flops in Broadway history, as the musical closed after only sixteen previews and five shows. It became infamous enough to inspire a book written about Broadway's worst to carry the title Not Since Carrie. A number of people, however, saw a lot of potential beneath the poor production and feel that it could've worked out if it had received some polish. A heavily overhauled, off-Broadway revival eventually happened. Fun fact - the original Broadway run had Margaret White played by Betty Buckley - who had starred in the 1976 film as the gym teacher. The 1999 sequel The Rage: Carrie 2 starred Emily Bergl and Jason London, and had Amy Irving reprise her role as Sue Snell. Set over twenty years after the original film, it has a new teen outcast, Rachel Lang, use her powers to get revenge on a group of Jerk Jocks who had bullied her friend Lisa into killing herself, while Sue, now a guidance counselor who remembers what had happened before, tries to stop things from getting out of control. A Dolled-Up Installment (it was originally written as a standalone film called The Curse), it met a poor reception from critics and was mostly forgotten at the box office, though it does have something of a cult fandom nowadays. A made-for-TV version was made in 2002, airing on NBC. This adaptation, written by Bryan Fuller and starring Angela Bettis, Patricia Clarkson, and Emilie de Ravin, stayed closer to King's novel than the 1976 film did — with the exception of the ending, which the creators intended to lead into an NBC series that never happened. The film mirrors the novel's use of after-the-fact articles to tell its story; most of the film takes place in flashbacks while the police interview what few survivors remain after Carrie's rampage. Despite its obvious low budget, blatant CG, and radically altered ending, this film has its share of fans, particularly for Bettis' performance as Carrie and for being Truer to the Text. In some way, this version could perhaps be compared to the 1997 Mini Series remake of The Shining in terms of trying to be more faithful to the source material, though King wasn't involved with this one. Another film adaptation was released in 2013. This version was directed by Kimberly Peirce (of Boys Don't Cry fame), written by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, and starred ChloÃ« Grace Moretz, Julianne Moore, and Judy Greer. It largely pulled elements from both the novel and De Palma's film; opinion on it is largely divided as to whether it should've been based more on the book or the 1976 movie. The overall reaction is that it's not bad, exactly, though it's still very much in the shadow of the original. A leaked script and several deleted scenes confirm that it was supposed to be more faithful to the book, but forty minutes of footage were cut and a lot was re-shot to bring it closer to a Shot-for-Shot Remake.The book and 1976 movie also received a YA homage in 2022, Tiffany D. Jackson's "remix" The Weight Of Blood.Don't confuse this work with Carrie Underwood (though her video for "Before He Cheats" is a homage to the film), the late great Carrie Fisher, or two other well-known fictional Carries.
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Carrie / int_1045c71a	type	Dying Town
Carrie / int_1045c71a	comment	Carrie herself wants everyone in her school and everyone in her town dead in response to the prank. The town at large had treated her like an outcast for years, but her rampage extends to people who had never met her. As an added benefit, Chamberlain becomes a Dying Town, and most of the businesses that survived the rampage move to other areas. At the least, there was a minor economic recession.
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Carrie / int_11e0d645	type	Arc Symbol
Carrie / int_11e0d645	comment	Arc Symbol: Blood, as a representation of power, violence, and death.
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Carrie / int_126ce03c	type	I Was Quite a Looker
Carrie / int_126ce03c	comment	I Was Quite a Looker: Carrie's former next-door neighbor remarks what a pretty child she was and her reaction to seeing Carrie's high school photo was "what did that woman [Margaret] do to her?". This also applies to Margaret. Interviews with people from her past and records indicate that she used to be a very beautiful young woman, but her physical appearance began to degrade when her mental stability did the same.
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Carrie / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Carrie / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Carrie's 7th Grade English teacher is called Edwin King; Edwin is Stephen King's middle name. The Prom program's entertainment list includes "Folk Music by John Swithen", an early pen-name of King's.
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Carrie / int_141a6acb	type	Madness Mantra
Carrie / int_141a6acb	comment	Madness Mantra: "If the eye doth offend thee, pluck it out" for Margaret after Carrie disobeys her and goes to prom, and Margaret plans to kill her. "CARRIE CARRIE CARRIE" becomes one for everybody in Chamberlain during the rampage, although it actually comes from Carrie herself as they recognize her presence. "Pig blood for a pig" seems to be this for Billy.
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Carrie / int_1440584e	type	Heroic RRoD
Carrie / int_1440584e	comment	Heroic RRoD: Carrie herself has one of these in the end after killing her mother, from a combination of shock, blood loss, and sheer overuse of her power which caused her heart to give out, although it's not really heroic. Also, it's heavily implied, including a medical analysis during one of Carrie's early practice sessions, that all telekinetics will eventually succumb to this because telekinesis puts great strain on the heart and lungs.
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Carrie / int_1520ad7e	type	Jumping Off the Slippery Slope
Carrie / int_1520ad7e	comment	Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: Carrie follows up her prom rampage by destroying most of the town, and gleefully massacres people she's never even met by electrocuting them in the street. The death toll is over 400 by the time she's dying.
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Carrie / int_1551c0d9	type	Obnoxious Entitled Housewife
Carrie / int_1551c0d9	comment	Obnoxious Entitled Housewife: Sue imagines her becoming an obnoxious controlling suburban wife after she throws tampons and pads at Carrie in the shower. It motivates her to ask Tommy to take Carrie to the prom instead of her.
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Carrie / int_1645005b	type	Evil Versus Evil
Carrie / int_1645005b	comment	Evil Versus Evil: Carrie vs. Margaret and her bullies in general. Carrie at first starts out as the sympathetic hero, but her revenge on them all crosses the line from reasonable to miles beyond ruthless, to the point where she's killing and mind-raping people she's never met before.
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Carrie / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
Carrie / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: This happens a lot, with the reader being given different perspectives of the events that sometimes conflict with each other. Sue's memoir portrays her in the best possible light, while Norma's account of the prom disaster omits the fact that she had taunted Carrie earlier in the night, and seemed to be hoping that something bad would happen.
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Carrie / int_19851b86	type	The Sociopath
Carrie / int_19851b86	comment	The Sociopath: Billy, who has no empathy for anyone and abuses any person who comes within his reach.
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Carrie / int_1994ba0b	type	Gone Horribly Right
Carrie / int_1994ba0b	comment	Gone Horribly Right: Chris' plan. She did humiliate Carrie just as she wanted, but it kicks off a Freak Out that would later result in dozens of people — including herself — being killed and traumatized. It also ruins her reputation posthumously, as the survivors write books painting her — perhaps rightfully — as the instigator.
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Carrie / int_1bf0adc6	type	Did You Think I Can't Feel?
Carrie / int_1bf0adc6	comment	Did You Think I Can't Feel?: A variation: instead of Carrie saying this, it's Miss Desjardin who does so for her as she punishes the class for humiliating Carrie in the shower. Subverted in that the girls (other than Sue) don't learn a thing from it — in fact, it makes Chris want to humiliate Carrie even further.
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Carrie / int_1c8d6c07	type	Single Girl Seeks Most Popular Guy
Carrie / int_1c8d6c07	comment	Single Girl Seeks Most Popular Guy: Deconstructed. Carrie actually isn't very interested in Tommy, and at first, thinks that the only reason he's even talking to her is because of a joke. It takes a lot of convincing on Tommy's part for her to even consider going to the prom with him.
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Carrie / int_1d029135	type	Fictional Document
Carrie / int_1d029135	comment	Fictional Document: All of the stuff that is quoted as part of the novel's Scrapbook Story framework, My Name is Sue Snell being the most prominent example.
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Carrie / int_1d18887f	type	Pay Evil unto Evil
Carrie / int_1d18887f	comment	Pay Evil unto Evil: Carrie and her prom rampage, especially with her murder of Chris and her boyfriend, Billy.
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Carrie / int_1df37537	type	Mutual Kill
Carrie / int_1df37537	comment	Mutual Kill: Margaret stabs Carrie, then Carrie kills Margaret by stopping her heart. Carrie eventually dies from shock, blood loss, and overuse of her power in finishing off her final tormentors, Billy and Chris.
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Carrie / int_206ac00b	type	XanatosRoulette
Carrie / int_206ac00b	comment	Xanatos Roulette: Billy mentions that there's a chance that someone will go up into the rafters (where the stage props are kept) and discover the buckets, but considers it "an acceptable risk". He also says that while Chris has told him Carrie and Tommy will win, he's not sure it will happen, but he doesn't care because he'd just as gladly dump the blood on anyone else.
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Carrie / int_22a27b19	type	Alpha Bitch
Carrie / int_22a27b19	comment	This trope comes into the climax of the tale, where Chris Hargensen dumps a bucket of pig's blood on Carrie during prom as a reference to the earlier incident. Several people laugh, though it's implied some do so from shock as opposed to finding it genuinely funny, not that it makes much difference to Carrie. It's this that causes Carrie to snap and wreak vengeance upon the town.
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Carrie / int_272abb98	type	Shoot the Shaggy Dog
Carrie / int_272abb98	comment	Shoot the Shaggy Dog: Near the end, Sue notes that she's missed a period and this could mean she's pregnant with Tommy's baby (and after he dies at the prom, this means she might have Someone to Remember Him By). After Carrie dies, Sue gets her period. Either she was late and got her hopes up for nothing, or the experience of letting Carrie into her mind made her miscarry. The 2013 film spares the baby and ends with Sue giving birth.
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Carrie / int_2740531a	type	She Cleans Up Nicely
Carrie / int_2740531a	comment	She Cleans Up Nicely: When Carrie gets dressed up for the prom, both Tommy and the narrator say she's beautiful. Miss Desjardin gets this as well when she turns up at the prom. Carrie thinks she looks as though she's attending the prom instead of just chaperoning.
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Carrie / int_2764d432	type	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
Carrie / int_2764d432	comment	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Discussed by Sue Snell at one point. She claims that bad people don't get better, they just get better at hiding their true colors.
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Carrie / int_27ab0123	type	Offing the Offspring
Carrie / int_27ab0123	comment	Offing the Offspring: Margaret White tries to kill Carrie when Carrie comes home from prom. Before that, she nearly murders an infant Carrie after seeing her levitate a bottle.
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Carrie / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
Carrie / int_28cd01ca	comment	Disappeared Dad: Carrie's father died in a work-related accident before his daughter's birth.
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Carrie / int_2a4e8051	type	Sexual Karma
Carrie / int_2a4e8051	comment	Sexual Karma: Inverted. Tommy and Sue are more sympathetic, and Their First Time they do it is painful for Sue â€” only getting better after a couple of times. Billy and Chris, however, are the villains, and Billy essentially rapes Chris for Their First Time â€” and she loves it. It's also said that Margaret White enjoyed when Ralph raped her, although she was still unhappy about it.
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Carrie / int_2c1f1138	type	He Who Fights Monsters
Carrie / int_2c1f1138	comment	He Who Fights Monsters: Carrie at first tries to humiliate everyone by turning on the sprinklers and ruining their clothes, as hers was ruined. Mean? Yes, but at least it's just clothes. Her powers lash out, however, and the water mixes with the band equipment to cause mass electrocution. Carrie revels in it, eventually blowing up the school.
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Carrie / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
Carrie / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: In-universe, other students are amazed to learn Carrie made her own prom dress. This becomes more of a revelation in later adaptations when this ability becomes far less common for the average teenage girl. Carrie has a sharp sense of humor that few are aware of. She thinks that the euphemistic expression for menstruation "time of the month" sounds like the name of a quiz show and compares Tina and Norma in their supposedly chic black prom dresses to a couple of old-movie cigarette girls. She also shuts down Norma's passive-aggressive compliments by telling her she's "Don McLean's secret lover."
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Carrie / int_2e154495	type	Shower of Angst
Carrie / int_2e154495	comment	Shower of Angst: Carrie is showering after a long day of bullying and tough physical education. Already in a bad mood, this is when she gets her first period, and kicks off everything that follows.
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Carrie / int_2e285a8b	type	Person as Verb
Carrie / int_2e285a8b	comment	Person as Verb: At the end of the novel, it's said that "to rip off a Carrie" passed into teen slang, meaning "to commit large-scale mayhem". In Real Life, "pulling a Carrie" or "going Carrie on [something]" became synonymous with someone going crazy after being humiliated, especially if they'd generally been quiet or shy. This one's become so well-traveled that it even appears in the His and Her Circumstances manga as a visual-only metaphor for someone snapping under the strain of having perfectionist, controlling parents.
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Carrie / int_2e735eb	type	Nominated as a Prank
Carrie / int_2e735eb	comment	Nominated as a Prank: This is how Chris plans to get back at Carrie after she gets banned from prom for bullying Carrie. She rigs the vote for prom queen so that Carrie and Tommy will win. When they come on stage to be crowned, she dumps a bucket of pig's blood on her. She accomplishes this by having her friends volunteer to help collect and count the votes for prom queen and king.
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Carrie / int_2e8875f0	type	Misplaced Retribution
Carrie / int_2e8875f0	comment	Miss Desjardin is an even more extreme example. When she bans Chris from prom, she gives Chris exactly what she deserves for not even being able to take her mild punishment. Unfortunately, this triggers Chris's insane Misplaced Retribution against Carrie.
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Carrie / int_30b41d96	type	Blood-Splattered Wedding Dress
Carrie / int_30b41d96	comment	Blood-Splattered Wedding Dress: Prom dress, but close enough. Carrie is soaked with pig's blood following Chris' prank, and though it's obviously a non-visual image in the novel, all film and television adaptations has the haunting image of Carrie wreaking her revenge in her bloody dress. Not to mention that the dress is red in the book, but all adaptations lighten the colour to pink so as to make the blood splattering have more effect.
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Carrie / int_31578d72	type	Hates Everyone Equally
Carrie / int_31578d72	comment	Hates Everyone Equally: Billy seems motivated only by a general disdain for everyone around him. It's clear that his preferred target is Carrie, but he ultimately wants to ruin the prom for whoever wins, regardless of who it is. When setting up the prank, he thinks to himself that he would find it just as funny if Chris was the target of the pig blood, and later tells her directly that he would have done it to her if he could.
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Carrie / int_31a2a33c	type	Stuff Blowing Up
Carrie / int_31a2a33c	comment	Stuff Blowing Up: The school's fuel tank explodes, blowing up the entire school, and then a couple of gas stations close to downtown. Carrie also makes fire hydrants "explode" to prevent the fire department from putting out her fire.
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Carrie / int_3426387d	type	Unique Moment Ruined
Carrie / int_3426387d	comment	Unique Moment Ruined: Prom night, and especially being chosen as the prom queen, was supposed to be the highlight for Carrie, and she certainly thought it was a Throw the Dog a Bone moment after all the bullying she'd had to endure at school and the abuse she had to endure from her religious-nut mother at home. Unfortunately for Carrie, Chris rigged the ballots so Carrie would win the prom queen title, just so she would be set up to get a bucket of pig's blood dumped on her as an act of utter spite. Unfortunately for everyone else, that proved to be the final straw that would result in Carrie's rampage.
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Carrie / int_36c94bed	type	Person of Mass Destruction
Carrie / int_36c94bed	comment	Person of Mass Destruction: Carrie herself. She destroys a whole town in one night.
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Carrie / int_382a6399	type	The Hero Dies
Carrie / int_382a6399	comment	The Hero Dies: While it's hard to call Carrie herself a heroine, it counts as such in the sense that she's the main character. Averted in the 2002 film.
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Carrie / int_38718ea8	type	Beautiful All Along
Carrie / int_38718ea8	comment	Beautiful All Along: Carrie cleans up rather nicely when she's allowed to. Tommy himself, when having a conversation with her, is surprised to see that she's actually very pretty underneath her poor posture and refusal to make eye contact. It's also said that telekinesis burns up a lot of energy, so it's possible that using more of her powers slimmed Carrie down a little before the prom.
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Carrie / int_38d12399	type	Teens Are Monsters
Carrie / int_38d12399	comment	Teens Are Monsters: All the girls in the locker room, but particularly Chris, who is the mastermind behind the pig-blood prank. (Sue, however, quickly regrets her part in the taunting of Carrie.) Billy is a monster as well. And of course, there's Carrie...
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Carrie / int_38f364e0	type	Befriending the Bullied
Carrie / int_38f364e0	comment	Befriending the Bullied: After the incident with the locker room and Carrie's first period, Sue Snell (who was one of the girls who teased Carrie but regrets it when she learned Carrie really didn't know what a period was) decides to befriend her, inviting her to the prom and even encouraging her boyfriend to be Carrie's date.
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Carrie / int_3ac583f4	type	SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism
Carrie / int_3ac583f4	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism: Way on the cynical side. Most of the developed characters are jerks to some degree, and the few nice ones all end up dead or traumatized by the end. The film versions are a bit more idealistic, mainly due to making various characters more likable, but are still pretty grim.
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Carrie / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
Carrie / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: In the first half of the book, the narration lets us know that there will be a tragedy and that at the very least Margaret White shall be dead (but not Sue Snell).
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Carrie / int_3c3f28a5	type	Blessed with Suck
Carrie / int_3c3f28a5	comment	Blessed with Suck: Margaret knows or suspects that Carrie has a special "gift", and makes her suffer for it (among other reasons). When Carrie finally unleashes her full powers, she causes so many deaths that the whole world resents her deeply.
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Carrie / int_3ca50188	type	Confidence Building Scheme
Carrie / int_3ca50188	comment	Confidence Building Scheme: Sue Snell decides to make up for bullying Carrie by encouraging Tommy Ross to invite her out to the prom, hoping that it'll bring the isolated girl out of her shell (a goal stated out loud to a sceptical Miss Collins in the 1976 movie). This actually appears to work for a while, with Carrie blossoming in confidence, standing up to her abusive mother, genuinely getting along with Tommy, and even flourishing socially for a time... and then Chris Hargensen sabotages the whole thing by dumping a bucket of pig's blood on Carrie right in the middle of the prom. Consumed by her inner demons, Carrie turns her burgeoning telekinetic powers on first the school and then the town of Chamberlain as a whole; in the aftermath, Sue's scheme looks so suspicious that several conspiracy theories insist that she and Chris were in cahoots all along, leaving Sue lumbered with the lion's share of the blame for the massacre by the media; the investigators know better.
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Carrie / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
Carrie / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Chris's dad is a powerful attorney; while most stories treat these kinds of men like they are magical wizards that can wave a wand and dispel any charges against their client, he has to back down from his threat to sue the school over Chris's punishment when the school reveals her long list of transgressions. Her actions are bad enough in scale and scope that he not only cannot defend her completely in court, but she would end up in jail if it was brought to the court's attention. Sue hopes that Tommy taking Carrie out for a nice night will allow Carrie to break out of her shell and find confidence, as well as hope for a better life rather than being stuck with her mother. The plan almost works; Carrie sews her own prom dress, stands up to her mother, and has a great time dancing with Tommy. On the other hand, Carrie has been abused and bullied to the point of attempted murder; she knows that other people see her as their clown and scapegoat. When the bucket comes down, she's horrified, but what makes it worse is everyone laughing, including the gym teacher who defended her and seemed nice. One good night goes up in smoke, and Carrie utterly snaps. Chris is a Spoiled Brat who pranks Carrie at the prom. That makes her indirectly responsible for the subsequent massacre. Thanks to several books written by the survivors and the investigators finding out who set up the buckets of pig's blood, Chris's reputation is indelibly ruined in death. At least there's that.
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Carrie / int_40e993f4	type	"Not If They Enjoyed It" Rationalization
Carrie / int_40e993f4	comment	"Not If They Enjoyed It" Rationalization: Margaret crudely tells Carrie how she was produced via rape because Margaret considered all sex — even within marriage — to be offensive and sinful. She starts screaming about how she admits she enjoyed it.
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Carrie / int_42c186e	type	A Tragedy of Impulsiveness
Carrie / int_42c186e	comment	A Tragedy of Impulsiveness: The people around Carrie herself were just plain old jerks who were being jerks when they wanted to — but then again, everyone in the prom wouldn't have been killed and most of the town wouldn't have been destroyed had they stopped to think that bullying someone might eventually get them into real trouble.
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Carrie / int_443b78cd	type	Tranquil Fury
Carrie / int_443b78cd	comment	Carrie finally snaps after Chris pushes her one time too many at the prom, and although she spends a lot of the time in Tranquil Fury, there's no mistaking that she wants blood.
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Carrie / int_45398e01	type	Psycho Knife Nut
Carrie / int_45398e01	comment	Psycho Knife Nut: In Margaret's more psychotic moments, including the end, she goes after Carrie with a butcher's knife.
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Carrie / int_45a387bc	type	Light Feminine and Dark Feminine
Carrie / int_45a387bc	comment	Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: Sue Snell and Chris Hargensen, respectively. Best examplifed on their thoughts about Carrie White: Sue is a blonde Innocent Beta Bitch who spends most of the novel trying to make Carrie feel better about herself and feels great guilt after the infamous Black Prom. Chris, meanwhile, is the aloof Alpha Bitch who has a long detention record and is the one that pulls the nasty prank on Carrie on prom night. Coincidentally, their boyfriends fit the Spear Counterpart of this trope as shown below.
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Carrie / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Carrie / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Mr. Morton doesn't relate to his students that well and keeps getting Carrie's name wrong, but is indignant about how the bullies treated her in the shower, and firmly supports Principal Grayle's stand against Chris's father. He even suggests that he'll quit if Chris's father gets Grayle fired.
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Carrie / int_49f6a9e4	type	Most Writers Are Writers
Carrie / int_49f6a9e4	comment	Most Writers Are Writers: Sue Snell goes on to become an author, publishing a memoir about her life and the prom incident. Tommy also had a poem of his published in a magazine. Norma Watson and Tina Blake co-write a book called We Survived the Black Prom.
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Carrie / int_4a5bda80	type	Fanservice Pack
Carrie / int_4a5bda80	comment	Fanservice Pack: In-universe example. Estelle Horan (Carrie's neighbour in her childhood) recalls Margaret White calling her 'the Whore of Babylon' for sunbathing in her garden. She wore a rather modest one piece swimsuit. In defiance, her mother then bought a much skimpier bikini for her to wear.
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Carrie / int_4c8e8078	type	All of the Other Reindeer
Carrie / int_4c8e8078	comment	All of the Other Reindeer: The titular Carrie herself, shy, awkward, and totally naive to things as universally known as a woman's period. This is due almost entirely to her being raised by her zealous mother — as a child, the lessons Carrie's mother put into her head made her judge the other kids her age unfairly, and even though she's outgrown that as a teenager, she still has no idea how to act with other people. Needless to say, very few people have a nice word to say about her.
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Carrie / int_4ccd1c09	type	Gender-Restricted Ability
Carrie / int_4ccd1c09	comment	Gender-Restricted Ability: Telekinesis seems to be this way, considering Carrie, Margaret's grandmother, and Amelia Jenk's daughter Annie are all female. In one of the in-universe scientific papers, it's speculated that the "TK gene" is dominant only in women; men can only be carriers of the gene.
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Carrie / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Carrie / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Carrie kills her mother at the end, then dies from a combination of overuse of her power and her own injuries. This ends up killing the town as well, owing to how many people died. Also, the few survivors appear to be traumatized, especially Sue. She's made the scapegoat along with Tommy, who is dead and can't defend himself. To top it off, nobody actually learns anything, with the press portraying Carrie's victims as Too Good for This Sinful Earth while omitting any mention of how they drove Carrie over the edge. Sue, for what it's worth, maintains her innocence and writes a book about what happened. The investigators also deem her and Tommy innocent when evidence reveals that Chris and Billy were the ones actually responsible.
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Carrie / int_4e3e577a	type	Psychological Horror
Carrie / int_4e3e577a	comment	Psychological Horror: While much of the book's climax is visceral, the majority of the horror comes from seeing just how badly Carrie's mind is messed up from her upbringing.
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Carrie / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Carrie / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: Carrie has been abused for years at home and at school, but her murderous rampage throughout the town is never justified. She murders most of her class over a prank that two people pulled (and it's implied that most of them were laughing out of shock and didn't actually find it funny), then destroys much of her town and electrocutes completely innocent people who had never done anything to her. However, considering her mental state at this point, one can say that her ability to differentiate the innocent from those who wronged her had been destroyed along with her sanity. This is set in motion by another example, namely Chris pulling the elaborate prank on Carrie in retaliation for getting punished for bullying her in the showers. Chris had previously put a firecracker in a girl's shoe because she had a cleft lip.
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Carrie / int_50f5dabe	type	Reincarnation
Carrie / int_50f5dabe	comment	Reincarnation: Implied sometime after Carrie dies, an Appalachian girl is born with similar powers, but it seems the same tragedy will not befall upon her because she lives with a loving mother who supports her and does not consider her "wild talent" to be a source of evil. The girl also is described as looking suspiciously similar to Carrie's little girl self.
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Carrie / int_51a24979	type	The Freelance Shame Squad
Carrie / int_51a24979	comment	The Freelance Shame Squad: A lot of those stupid teenagers at the prom might have lived had they not found Carrie's utter humiliation so hilarious. Or tripped her as she ran out the door. An interview with one of the survivors of the whole thing reveals that it was one of those situations where it was either laugh, cry, or go crazy. Some people in Real Life tend to laugh in awkward situations. Combine contagious laughter and mob psychology and you get one horrible situation all around.
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Carrie / int_5296dbd4	type	Face/Heel Double-Turn
Carrie / int_5296dbd4	comment	Face/Heel Double-Turn: Carrie starts out as a sympathetic victim, with Sue as one of her bullies. Over the course of the book, Sue becomes a kinder person, while Carrie gives in to her dark side and massacres her town.
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Carrie / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Carrie / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: At the start of both the book and the movies, Carrie gets her first period and promptly freaks out at the sight of her blood. At the climax, the period she had previously becomes the least of her worries. In the book, the opening scene is of Carrie getting her first period. At the end of the book, Sue Snell starts menstruating right after she comforts the dying Carrie. Like Carrie's first period in the beginning, this one is significant; Sue had previously been wondering if she was pregnant due to her missing her period. This can happen due to stress, but it's implied that Carrie is responsible for whatever caused her to start menstruating again.
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Carrie / int_54f999c	type	AlternateCharacterInterpretation
Carrie / int_54f999c	comment	Alternate Character Interpretation: Many characters get this treatment in-universe. The investigators suspect that Sue and Tommy were actually trying to set Carrie up for humiliation, which wasn't the case. Sue portrays Chris as the driving force behind the prank and says she manipulated Billy to do what she wanted, while the investigators put more blame on Billy, feeling that he took over the plan and did most of it himself. The truth seems to be somewhere in the middle, as Chris came up with the plan, but Billy is fully on-board with it and wants to wreck the prom for everybody.
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Carrie / int_56d95b5b	type	High School
Carrie / int_56d95b5b	comment	High School: The majority of the novel takes place at Carrie's high school, and it includes such archetypes as Alpha Bitch Chris, popular jock Tommy, and the outcast Carrie herself.
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Carrie / int_585db628	type	Vote Early, Vote Often
Carrie / int_585db628	comment	Vote Early, Vote Often: In all film versions, this is how Chris gets Carrie to win by getting her sidekick to switch the ballots. In the book, Chris merely does some promoting amongst her clique, but Carrie and Tommy only win by one vote. Chris also mentions that she "set it up" so Carrie would win, but we don't see how.
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Carrie / int_5897cc7a	type	Prom Wrecker
Carrie / int_5897cc7a	comment	Prom Wrecker: Chris and her friends plan to do this to get back at Carrie. They rig the vote for Prom Queen so that Carrie will win. When Carrie goes on stage to accept her crown, they dump a bucket of pig's blood on her. This is the likely Trope Codifier, with many examples paying homage to this scene.
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Carrie / int_590eb583	type	Domestic Abuse
Carrie / int_590eb583	comment	Domestic Abuse: How Margaret treats Carrie, and how Billy treats Chris. Margaret regularly forces Carrie into the confessional, beats her if she gets out of line, and guilt-trips her if she does not obey. Billy also slaps and insults Chris several times, but she is, unfortunately, kind of into it.
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Carrie / int_59af9477	type	Delinquents
Carrie / int_59af9477	comment	Delinquents: Billy and his friends. Case in point, breaking into someone's farm and slaughtering their pigs for the prank.
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Carrie / int_5a60e54b	type	RedemptionEqualsLife
Carrie / int_5a60e54b	comment	Redemption Equals Life: In the book, Sue, who regretted tormenting Carrie and tried to make it up to her, is spared by Carrie after Carrie reads her mind and learns that Sue had no malice towards her. In fact, most of the characters who made some effort to help her, like the gym teacher and the principal, survive here.
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Carrie / int_5abc8612	type	Unholy Matrimony
Carrie / int_5abc8612	comment	Unholy Matrimony: Sociopathic Alpha Bitch Chris Hargensen and her equally depraved boyfriend Billy Nolan have a rather twisted version of this going on, more prominent here as, unlike in the adaptations, both are presented as despicable people who are just as bad as each other.
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Carrie / int_60547993	type	I Want My Beloved to Be Happy
Carrie / int_60547993	comment	I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: On prom night, Sue finds herself considering the possibility that Tommy might fall for Carrie, and she doesn't seem to have much of a problem with it. Tommy's last thoughts before the prank is pulled (that he's come to love both of them) suggest that this might have been the case.
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Carrie / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
Carrie / int_617f0563	comment	Heelâ€“Face Turn: Sue Snell at the beginning of the story. After tormenting Carrie with the other girls, she decides that she wants to make it up to her by having her boyfriend take Carrie to prom, and even tells Chris to leave Carrie alone. That said, the book—and even Stephen King himself—leaves it ambiguous whether she had a genuine change of heart or was just guilty/embarrassed for what she did. At some points, it seems that she isn't sure herself.
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Carrie / int_63389b0b	type	Kids Are Cruel
Carrie / int_63389b0b	comment	Kids Are Cruel: To a nauseating degree. In addition to all the bullying Carrie gets at Ewen High, we learn that one time she went to summer camp and all the other kids treated her horribly, including outright trying to drown her.
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Carrie / int_658f7193	type	Lack of Empathy
Carrie / int_658f7193	comment	Lack of Empathy: Chris and her minions couldn't care less about how rotten they made Carrie feel, resulting in their demises. Billy is an even more extreme example, since he's obsessed over wrecking Carrie's prom night even more than Chris is, despite the fact that he doesn't even know her.
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Carrie / int_66e8263	type	Fiction Isn't Fair
Carrie / int_66e8263	comment	Fiction Isn't Fair: Carrie may be sympathetic, but the prank, being laughed at, and losing her mother all in one night takes away all her sanity and turns her into a monster. Even her happiest ending (the 2013 film) is only such because she seems a little at peace dying with her mother.
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Carrie / int_68da6712	type	Canon Welding
Carrie / int_68da6712	comment	Canon Welding: Margaret White works at the Blue Ribbon laundry company. This is the same company Bart Dawes of Roadwork was also employed by, and one of the company's locations had their speed ironer become demon-possessed in The Mangler. It's unlikely that these were all the same locations. Also, depending on how literally one wants to take it, Margaret White is said to have "fought the Black Man", which could also be said as "The Dark Man". Did she have an encounter with Randall Flagg, and could this be what drove her so insane? More likely, however, is that 'The Black Man' might refer to H. P. Lovecraft's Nyarlathotep, who is specifically called 'The Black Man' in "The Dreams in the Witch House".
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Carrie / int_6977c45e	type	Purple Prose
Carrie / int_6977c45e	comment	Purple Prose: A lot of the Scrapbook Story excerpts are very flowery and melodramatic:
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Carrie / int_698d7dad	type	Lovecraft Country
Carrie / int_698d7dad	comment	Lovecraft Country: Set in Maine, obviously. The '76 version is the only one that doesn't place the story there; a close look at the license plates suggests that it takes place in Ohio.
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Carrie / int_69e77917	type	Bucket Booby-Trap
Carrie / int_69e77917	comment	Bucket Booby-Trap: Chris's big revenge: dumping a bucket of pig's blood with Billy on Carrie as she and Tommy are being crowned. It works, Carrie is humiliated, and Chris gets her last laugh. She also killed Tommy by accident. It all goes downhill from there.
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Carrie / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Carrie / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: When Sue tries to defend herself by saying that she eventually stopped throwing tampons at Carrie, Chris points out that it's a pretty lame excuse. Chris's father also points out that a teacher should not swear at her students, and the principal admits that she was reprimanded over the incident.
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Carrie / int_6b983bf7	type	Unstoppable Rage
Carrie / int_6b983bf7	comment	Unstoppable Rage: Carrie finally snaps after Chris pushes her one time too many at the prom, and although she spends a lot of the time in Tranquil Fury, there's no mistaking that she wants blood. Margaret's death is also amped up in the film versions. In the novel (and in the musical), Carrie uses her powers to stop Margaret's heart. In the film versions, except the 2002 remake, she stabs and crucifies her with sharp kitchen utensils.
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Carrie / int_7276d0de	type	Mugging the Monster
Carrie / int_7276d0de	comment	Mugging the Monster: Billy, Chris, and Billy's delinquent buddies douse Carrie in pig's blood as a prank. Although they didn't know she was a monster until it was too late. They all end up dead for it.
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Carrie / int_72cdfc33	type	Big Bad Ensemble
Carrie / int_72cdfc33	comment	Big Bad Ensemble: Margaret White and the Chris/Billy couple — though Margaret and the teen lovers never meet one another, they all serve as the book's main antagonists and the main sources of Carrie's troubles.
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Carrie / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Carrie / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "Flex", for Carrie when she practices her telekinesis. "Pig's blood for a pig", for Billy, solidifying his Teens Are Monsters status.
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Carrie / int_7598fec1	type	Stocking Filler
Carrie / int_7598fec1	comment	Stocking Filler: Carrie wears a garter to hold up her stockings, although it's not intended to be sexy. It's because Margaret won't let her wear pantyhose. Carrie feels that it's cumbersome and uncomfortable and wishes she could wear sleek and sexy pantyhose like all the other girls instead.
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Carrie / int_763c2336	type	Callousness Towards Emergency
Carrie / int_763c2336	comment	Callousness Towards Emergency: Everyone in the gymnasium laughs at Tommy getting hit with the metal bucket due to the cartoonish sound-effect it creates. This is only averted after Josie from the band playing at the prom yells for someone to call an ambulance, and Norma narrates that everyone realized Tommy might be a goner.
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Carrie / int_79505052	type	Popular Is Evil
Carrie / int_79505052	comment	Popular Is Evil: Save for Sue and Tommy, the popular kids at school embody this trope. The girls are so cruel, they respond to Carrie mistaking her period for bleeding to death by throwing tampons and jeering at her. When the incident gets Chris banned from prom, instead of accepting her punishment, she blames Carrie and sets her up to be humiliated at prom, for no other reason than to see her â€œdestroyedâ€� as revenge.
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Carrie / int_798a9e41	type	Auto Erotica
Carrie / int_798a9e41	comment	Auto Erotica: Tommy and Sue have sex in the backseat of Tommy's car. Billy and Chris also have sex (or at least, a sexual encounter) in his truck, though theirs has a more nonconsensual undertone to it.
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Carrie / int_7a143509	type	Shell-Shocked Veteran
Carrie / int_7a143509	comment	Shell-Shocked Veteran: Most of the survivors of the prom, and the subsequent massacre, are this. Sue has to point out to the investigators questioning her if the prank was her and Tommy's idea that she just lost her boyfriend and most of her friends in one night, and people died in front of her when she ran to investigate. She gets rightly angry with them for thinking that she would have wanted something like this to happen.
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Carrie / int_7ab81664	type	Kick Them While They Are Down
Carrie / int_7ab81664	comment	Kick Them While They Are Down: As Carrie is running off the stage, crying, one of her bullies trips her, and everyone laughs even harder at that.
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Carrie / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
Carrie / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: When Sue tries to justify not apologizing to Carrie since Tommy never apologized to a bully he beat up, Tommy asks her, "What did the sad silly bitch [Carrie] ever do to you?".
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Carrie / int_7bb1296b	type	"Rashomon"-Style
Carrie / int_7bb1296b	comment	"Rashomon"-Style: Some of the books and articles coming out from the survivors' or investigators' perspectives has this, while the central narrative shows what actually happened. For example, there is quibbling on who laughed at Carrie when the pig's blood fell: Norma, one of the survivors, says that everyone laughed at Carrie because the only other option was to cry and feel sorry for her, and no one had done that for years. Sue in her memoirs emphasized that Chris and Billy were the only ones with malicious intent. Carrie sees Miss Desjardin trying to help her while also laughing, and peeks into her thoughts, seeing that her gym teacher pitied her with disgust rather than actual sympathy. This sets her off as she tries to kill everyone in the vicinity, and the town to boot.
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Carrie / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Carrie / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Miss Desjardin chews the girls out for assaulting Carrie in the locker room before handing out the detention slips.
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Carrie / int_7dad519f	type	Sex Is Evil
Carrie / int_7dad519f	comment	Sex Is Evil: Margaret thinks all sex, even within marriage, is immoral and sinful.
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Carrie / int_7eb73553	type	Bullying a Dragon
Carrie / int_7eb73553	comment	Bullying a Dragon: Chris and the rest of Carrie's Jerkass classmates didn't know what she was capable of until it was far too late. Her mother, on the other hand, did knowâ€¦ and not only kept right on treating her in the same old way, but actually treated her worse, calling her a witch. In the novel, it's mentioned that Margaret's grandmother had the same talent, and Margaret knew about it. In the book, there is a flashback from Margaret, involving her own grandmother (Carrie's great-grandmother). The woman would display her telekinesis and cackle madly. She'd also gone completely senile at an early age before dying of a heart attack. It's shown that she was a pretty frightening figure for Margaret to grow up with, which is probably why she ended up being a crazy religious fanatic. It's subtle, but gives her a very slight Well-Intentioned Extremist view.
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Carrie / int_7ec94d53	type	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds
Carrie / int_7ec94d53	comment	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: We really could have titled this trope "The Carrie". She may go psychotic at the end, but she shows remorse as soon as the rampage ends — and after what she endured, it's amazing she didn't snap sooner.
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Carrie / int_7f38c0cd	type	An Offer You Can't Refuse
Carrie / int_7f38c0cd	comment	An Offer You Can't Refuse: Miss Desjardin gives this ultimatum to her students as punishment for bullying Carrie. She originally wanted them suspended and banned from the prom, but the office decided one weekâ€™s detention with her. Chris proclaims she wonâ€™t come, leading to this exchange-
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Carrie / int_7f8fd503	type	Lonely at the Top
Carrie / int_7f8fd503	comment	Lonely at the Top: Sue and Tommy don't seem to enjoy their popularity. Sue is acutely aware of the price she's paying for it, while Tommy seems to feel that his popularity is superficial and won't last after graduation. This may be part of the appeal of befriending Carrie â€” she's the one person who would like him for who he is, not just because he's popular.
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Carrie / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Carrie / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Sue. Granted, if she hadn't participated in humiliating Carrie in the shower, Carrie would have still been mistreated, but Sue's actions made her feel guilty enough to send Tommy to ask her to the prom, which is what set into motion everything that followed. In her memoir, she admits that she didn't consider that this could end badly. Miss Desjardin is an even more extreme example. When she bans Chris from prom, she gives Chris exactly what she deserves for not even being able to take her mild punishment. Unfortunately, this triggers Chris's insane Misplaced Retribution against Carrie.
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Carrie / int_7fbe9a30	type	Freak Out
Carrie / int_7fbe9a30	comment	Freak Out: Carrie's — after the prank and being laughed at and humiliated — is one that kills a lot of people and leaves the entire world dumbfounded.
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Carrie / int_80a7d3e2	type	Convicted by Public Opinion
Carrie / int_80a7d3e2	comment	Convicted by Public Opinion: In the book, Sue and Tommy are blamed by the media for having planned the prank and driven Carrie over the edge, even though they had only played an incidental and fairly unwitting role in such. Sue maintains her and Tommy's innocence, and the investigators think rightly that Chris and Billy were more responsible.
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Carrie / int_83a903f6	type	Stepford Smiler
Carrie / int_83a903f6	comment	Stepford Smiler: Sue is terrified of becoming this in the novel after high school, though funnily enough, the incident prevents her from becoming one.
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Carrie / int_8551ca25	type	Prank Date
Carrie / int_8551ca25	comment	Prank Date: Subverted. Carrie thought this was the case when Tommy asked her to the prom. However, he had benign intentions, as did his girlfriend Sue, who arranged for him to take Carrie to the prom instead of her due to her feeling sorry for joining in on Carrie's humiliation in the shower. Chris found out, though, and she wanted to make sure it went very badly. And it did.
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Carrie / int_874176be	type	Psychic Powers
Carrie / int_874176be	comment	Psychic Powers: After having her first period, Carrie discovers she has these.
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Carrie / int_887ca31e	type	Noble Male, Roguish Male
Carrie / int_887ca31e	comment	Noble Male, Roguish Male: Tommy Ross and Billy Nolan respectively. Tommy Ross is a Lovable Jock who takes Carrie White to the prom while Billy Nolan is a sociopathic greaser who is one of the main masterminds behind the pig's blood prank. Coincidentally, their girlfriends fit the Distaff Counterpart of this trope as shown above.
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Carrie / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
Carrie / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: Carrie. More precisely, she's a Woobie Anti-Villain, starting off sympathetic but turning into a revenge-seeking monster by the book's end.
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Carrie / int_8a4988bb	type	Mind Rape
Carrie / int_8a4988bb	comment	Mind Rape: In the book, a dying Carrie tries to do this to Sue, angry about the prank that she thought Sue had pulled on her... only to find that Sue meant her no harm, and that she hadn't planned to humiliate her at the prom. Also, several people who survived Carrie's rampage had her presence and identity essentially stamped into their minds, even though most of them had never met her and many never saw her that night. In the book, Sue realizes that Carrie is also mildly telepathic, and actually invites Carrie to examine her thoughts to demonstrate her innocence. She didn't realize how unpleasant the experience would be, though.
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Carrie / int_8cf3fc5	type	Helpless with Laughter
Carrie / int_8cf3fc5	comment	Helpless with Laughter: During Norma's account of what happened on prom night, she describes most of the assembled students as laughing hysterically after seeing the pig's blood get dropped on Carrie; not because they actually find the prank funny, but because they were shocked and didn't know what else to do. One girl in particular is described as looking like she was about to either faint or throw up, but continued laughing anyway as if she physically couldn't stop. It ends very badly for all parties concerned.
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Carrie / int_8d0461e2	type	Destructive Romance
Carrie / int_8d0461e2	comment	Destructive Romance: Chris and Billy are bad enough on their own, but they bring out the absolute worst in each other.
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Carrie / int_8dea4592	type	Prayer Is a Last Resort
Carrie / int_8dea4592	comment	Prayer Is a Last Resort: One of Margaret's favorite examples of God's will at work is the tale of one Philip P. Bliss, who was a sailor until his boat was caught in a terrible storm one night. Afraid of drowning and going to Hell, Mr. Bliss got down on his knees and promised to dedicate the rest of his life to God if He saved him, and the storm immediately cleared.
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Carrie / int_8e3567ad	type	Menstrual Menace
Carrie / int_8e3567ad	comment	Menstrual Menace: Carrie's mild telekinetic powers become much stronger after her first period.
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Carrie / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Carrie / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Nearly everyone save Sue Snell (who survives). The famous scene where Carrie kills everyone at the prom is supposed to be deliberately horrifying in the book and film, but the effect is nullified somewhat when you are cheering her on. Carrie's date started out this way, but by the time the prom rolled around, he had actually grown to like her. Pity she never found that out...
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Carrie / int_8f36080d	type	Artistic License â€“ Education
Carrie / int_8f36080d	comment	Artistic License â€“ Education: Most schools have qualifications that a candidate for prom queen must meet, such as being a model student, actively involved in school activities, and well-liked by the student body. There is no way that Carrie would have qualified, so the book says that the school only votes for the male candidates, and their dates are just along for the ride (it's mentioned that the girls think this is sexist).
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Carrie / int_8fed141a	type	Bloody Handprint
Carrie / int_8fed141a	comment	Bloody Handprint: Carrie leaves one of these on Miss Desjardin's shorts during the shower incident, being under the impression that she is bleeding to death during her first period. (Momma never told her about "That Time of the Month", feeling that menstruation is caused by sin.)
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Carrie / int_90c54800	type	Scrapbook Story
Carrie / int_90c54800	comment	Scrapbook Story: The original novel was partly told through a mix of newspaper and magazine articles, scholarly papers, government reports, and excerpts from Sue Snell's memoirs.
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Carrie / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
Carrie / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: For Carrie's bullies themselves at the end, especially Billy and Chris. Years of their bullying and tormenting leads to them being painfully and horribly killed in Carrie's rampage. Carrie also lampshades that she's doing this to Margaret.
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Carrie / int_90f6d157	type	Confessional
Carrie / int_90f6d157	comment	Confessional: Margaret White has one in her house, where she locks Carrie in periodically. It is decorated with horrifically vengeful images of God and Jesus.
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Carrie / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
Carrie / int_916c72b3	comment	Rule of Symbolism: According to Stephen King, Carrie's rampage is a parable for the story of Samson in the temple. The 2013 film also references this, with the poem Carrie reads to the class. In-universe, Chris's idea for the prank seems to be the connection between the pig blood and Carrie's period blood in the shower. For Billy, the connection is even simpler: "Pig blood for a pig."
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Carrie / int_9315c635	type	Lovable Jock
Carrie / int_9315c635	comment	Lovable Jock: Tommy. He's popular, a great athlete, and dates popular girl Sue Snell. However, he's also a Nice Guy who sticks up for Carrie and treats her with genuine kindness before and during prom night. There's a reason everyone likes him.
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Carrie / int_952f8f26	type	Deadly Prank
Carrie / int_952f8f26	comment	Deadly Prank: It ends up being this for not only the entire senior class but the whole town, as Carrie follows up killing her schoolmates by going on a rampage through her town, killing hundreds of people. Even before then, however, the bucket intended for Tommy doesn't turn over and instead hits him square on the head. He's already dead by the time the gym explodes. Even if Carrie hadn't had supernatural powers, the prank would have likely resulted in at least one person being killed or critically injured.
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Carrie / int_9588c44b	type	First Period Panic
Carrie / int_9588c44b	comment	First Period Panic: Carrie is humiliated when she gets her first period in the gym showers during her senior year of high school. She initially thinks that she is bleeding to death, and instead of helping her, her classmates jeer and tease her. She causes a lightbulb to explode, signaling the growth of her telekinetic powers. Her mother is a religious fanatic with a pathological fear of sex and sexuality, such that Carrie wasn't informed about menstruation at all, much less that it's a natural process that every girl and woman goes through.
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Carrie / int_96b8e726	type	StockShoutOut
Carrie / int_96b8e726	comment	Stock Shout-Out: Has a page full.
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Carrie / int_96fbeaf	type	There Are No Therapists
Carrie / int_96fbeaf	comment	There Are No Therapists: Justified. Margaret probably thinks that therapists would lead Carrie down the path to Hell, and she'll be damned if she'll let the "godless" government social workers take away her daughter. In the book, at least, it's established that she regards the government as a den of sin.
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Carrie / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
Carrie / int_973d220f	comment	Never My Fault: Many an Unreliable Narrator in the story seeks to absolve themselves of any responsibility for the massacre that happens late in the story. Norma's account of the prom disaster omits the fact that she had taunted Carrie earlier that same night, and seemed to be hoping that something bad was going to happen. When something bad did indeed happen, far beyond what Norma expected, she absolves herself of all blame and places it solely on Carrie. Chris is the most notorious character in this story who relishes this trope. She's punished for bullying Carrie with detention, but because she refused to come, she's suspended and banned from attending the prom, yet she swears vengeance against Carrie for all the punishments she rightfully deserved. Sue calls her out on this and asks her what Carrie ever did to her, but Chris coldly brushes it off by blaming Carrie over her motherâ€™s fanatical beliefs.
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Carrie / int_978a82e6	type	Big Bad Duumvirate
Carrie / int_978a82e6	comment	Big Bad Duumvirate: Chris and Billy, the Alpha Bitch and her sociopathic boyfriend. Chris wants to play the pig's blood prank on Carrie because Chris got in trouble for tormenting her. Billy? He just thinks it's fun.
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Carrie / int_97aaa7f3	type	In the Blood
Carrie / int_97aaa7f3	comment	In the Blood: One of the book's Scrapbook Story elements consists of clippings from books and scientific papers discussing the genetic and biological origins of telekinesis. Telekinesis is something that shows up in Margaret's family every third generation.
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Carrie / int_99244825	type	Screen-to-Stage Adaptation
Carrie / int_99244825	comment	Screen-to-Stage Adaptation: The musical. As detailed above, it has become a byword for disastrous Broadway flops. Scarrie!, the musical parody.
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Carrie / int_99ddfcec	type	Unwitting Instigator of Doom
Carrie / int_99ddfcec	comment	Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Sue and Miss Desjardin end up inadvertently destroying the entire city of Chamberlain and killing hundreds of people just because they genuinely wanted to help Carrie.
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Carrie / int_9a480050	type	Do Not Taunt Cthulhu
Carrie / int_9a480050	comment	Do Not Taunt Cthulhu: Margaret's reaction to learning about Carrie's powers is to call her a witch, quoting the appropriate Bible verse on the subject. Carrie's reaction to this is to use those powers to essentially hold Margaret hostage until prom. Margaret doesn't learn her lesson.
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Carrie / int_9ae0ead1	type	Villains Out Shopping
Carrie / int_9ae0ead1	comment	Villains Out Shopping: There's a scene featuring the normally monstrous Margaret happily doing some ironing and listening to one of her favorite records. It'sâ€¦ off-putting, to say the least.
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Carrie / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
Carrie / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: In all versions of the story, Carrie kills her fellow classmates by locking them in the gym and burning it down. The novel and the remake also have her flooding the gym floor and dropping live wires into it, electrocuting everybody, and causing a short circuit to start a fire.
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Carrie / int_9c73b5b2	type	Let Them Die Happy
Carrie / int_9c73b5b2	comment	Let Them Die Happy: Tommy's death has an element of this, as his last thoughts before the prank is him feeling happy about him and Carrie winning, and the bucket hits him before he has time to register that anything's gone wrong.
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Carrie / int_9d0cfdb9	type	Sex Is Evil, and I Am Horny
Carrie / int_9d0cfdb9	comment	Sex Is Evil, and I Am Horny: Though Margaret's husband Ralph shared her beliefs, one time he got drunk and couldn't resist the temptation, and managed to pressure her into having sex. The book also makes it clear that Margaret also suffered from this, although the '76 version has her suggest that he raped her. And so Carrie was conceived. Margaret never got over the fact that she actually enjoyed the act.
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Carrie / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Carrie / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Early on, Sue talks to the owner of a teen hang-out who complains that his pacemaker keeps electrocuting him. He says that he hopes Sue's friends don't have to find out what that's like...
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Carrie / int_9e86e227	type	The End... Or Is It?
Carrie / int_9e86e227	comment	The End... Or Is It?: In contrast to all of the adaptations, the novel ends with a letter written by a Tennessee woman called Amelia Jenks describing the telekinetic powers of her two-year-old daughter Annie, who can make marbles move by themselves. Fortunately, she's more stable than Carrie's mother, although she worries Annie's taking after her own telekinetic grandmother means she'll suffer heart trouble later on. The letter and the novel's final words are "I bet she'll be a worldbeeter [sic] someday."
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Carrie / int_9ee065ab	type	Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday
Carrie / int_9ee065ab	comment	Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday: Carrie's blood-filled Freak Out happens on prom night.
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Carrie / int_9fb2452d	type	Evil Is Not a Toy
Carrie / int_9fb2452d	comment	Evil Is Not a Toy: Chris finds out the hard way that the 'bad boy' she dates and manipulates is an even worse person than herself when he beats and rapes her.
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Carrie / int_a0a005d1	type	Protagonist Journey to Villain
Carrie / int_a0a005d1	comment	Protagonist Journey to Villain: Or at least an Anti-Villain. The story is about how a lifetime of bullying, capped off by one final Rage Breaking Point, turned Carrie into a mass murderer.
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Carrie / int_a108f2d2	type	Death by Mocking
Carrie / int_a108f2d2	comment	Death by Mocking: On a massive scale. After the students laugh at Carrie, she promptly goes on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge that leaves hundreds of people dead.
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Carrie / int_a132a4fe	type	Where I Was Born and Razed
Carrie / int_a132a4fe	comment	Where I Was Born and Razed: Carrie destroys her entire town, killing hundreds of people. It's explicitly stated that, within a few months, what was left of Chamberlain, Maine was a Dying Town, on the way to becoming a Ghost Town. The makers of the original film wanted to include this, but they didn't have the budget, and instead settled for destroying just her high school and her house.
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Carrie / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Carrie / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: The reason Sue asked Tommy to take Carrie to the prom was because she felt sorry for what she did to Carrie in the shower. Miss Desjardin and the principal both have this reaction after the massacre has occurred because they didn't help Carrie or do enough to stop her bullying. Both resign from teaching as a result. Carrie has this reaction as she's dying, with Sue revealing she was innocent, and Carrie realizes she killed her mother.
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Carrie / int_a27c0c2c	type	Artistic License â€“ Religion
Carrie / int_a27c0c2c	comment	Artistic License â€“ Religion: Used deliberately to show how wildly out-of-touch Margaret is with the very point of religion's existence (namely, to prevent people from being jerks to each other). Many of the passages Margaret quotes are not found in any translation of any of the holy texts of Christianity.note Many people really do think the first sin was intercourse; the real first sin was disobedience.
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Carrie / int_a3422c3b	type	Period Shaming
Carrie / int_a3422c3b	comment	Period Shaming: One of the earliest scenes involves the title character getting her first period in the school shower and being brutally mocked for it by the other girls, including the girls flinging tampons and pads at her and chanting at her to "plug it up". It's made worse by the fact the highly sheltered Carrie has no idea what's happening and is terrified. Carrie's mother later locks her into their prayer closet and orders her to pray for forgiveness because she believes menstruation is sinful. This trope comes into the climax of the tale, where Chris Hargensen dumps a bucket of pig's blood on Carrie during prom as a reference to the earlier incident. Several people laugh, though it's implied some do so from shock as opposed to finding it genuinely funny, not that it makes much difference to Carrie. It's this that causes Carrie to snap and wreak vengeance upon the town.
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Carrie / int_a8559a9f	type	RealLife
Carrie / int_a8559a9f	comment	An interview with one of the survivors of the whole thing reveals that it was one of those situations where it was either laugh, cry, or go crazy. Some people in Real Life tend to laugh in awkward situations. Combine contagious laughter and mob psychology and you get one horrible situation all around.
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Carrie / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Carrie / int_a8f905e3	comment	While Rome Burns: Chris and Billy are too busy having rough sex to notice the town's blowing up.
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Carrie / int_a939d96a	type	Adults Are Useless
Carrie / int_a939d96a	comment	Adults Are Useless: In the book, the principal and vice-principal are both well-meaning and see to it that Chris is punished for her actions, but this only causes Chris to plot even worse revenge. A few days before the prom, they discuss their fear that she's going to pull something, but are ultimately powerless to stop it. The other adults in Carrie's life are either apathetic to her plight (most of her teachers) or actively making her life worse (her mom).
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Carrie / int_ad1ab367	type	The Masochism Tango
Carrie / int_ad1ab367	comment	The Masochism Tango: Chris and Billy. Billy even tries to rape Chris, but she submits quickly after realizing that's what he wants. And that she likes it.
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Carrie / int_adfd3165	type	For the Evulz
Carrie / int_adfd3165	comment	For the Evulz: Sue flat-out states that Chris's only motive for the prank was "the complete and total destruction of Carrie White." The boys who help Billy butcher the pigs don't know about the prank. They're just doing it for this reason, and to inconvenience the farmer.
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Carrie / int_af616e40	type	Accidental Misnaming
Carrie / int_af616e40	comment	Accidental Misnaming: The principal seems to think that Carrie's name is Cassie, even after being told repeatedly by Miss Desjardin that he's wrong. Carrie's frustration with it eventually results in another display of her powers.
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Carrie / int_affd30b0	type	Stupid Evil
Carrie / int_affd30b0	comment	Stupid Evil: Chris setting up Carrie to be pranked, out of spite. Even if Carrie didn't have powers, she would be identified as the instigator because there's a written record of her being banned from prom. Oh, and one of the buckets killed Tommy. In some versions, Sue even witnesses Chris doing this and tries to warn the teachers, to no avail. That's more than enough for the police to charge Chris and Billy with manslaughter, if not murder, given they ran when Tommy collapsed rather than call 911. This is ultimately what kills Billy in the book and 2002 film. He and Chris actually got away successfully from the high school after dropping the blood, just before the fireworks and rampaging start. He and Chris find out about most of their classmates dying and the little fact that the prank may be traced back to them. Chris immediately suggests the sensible solution: get the hell out of dodge and drive to California. What does Billy do instead? He tells Chris they'll drive into town to watch it go up in smoke. Then they see someone on the road, and Billy hits the gas pedal.
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Carrie / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
Carrie / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: Sue panics that she's going to end up as a Stepford Smiler suburban wife, possibly to Tommy, which is partly why she stands up for Carrie. So she gets Tommy to go to the promâ€¦ and she'll never be a Stepford Smiler again. Carrie's worst nightmare before prom is that she'll have to go back to living with Margaret, gaining weight and getting lonelier and lonelier. The prom doesn't just kill Carrie and Margaret, it also burns down most of Chamberlain.
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Carrie / int_b1a7cd14	type	Tap on the Head
Carrie / int_b1a7cd14	comment	Tap on the Head: Averted. A bucket filled with cold pig blood hits Tommy instead of coating him as well. Sadly, Amusing Injuries has no place in a Stephen King novel, as he is killed on impact. To add insult to injury, public opinion vilifies him in death, when he can't even defend himself. Sue takes great offense to this.
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Carrie / int_b1e8a3b3	type	Coming of Age Story
Carrie / int_b1e8a3b3	comment	Coming of Age Story: Albeit one that goes horribly, horribly wrong. Carrie begins as naive and sheltered, bullied by the other girls and just wanting some happiness in her life. Over the course of the story, she embraces her supernatural powers, comes out of her shell a little, and even manages to stand up to her mother. Unfortunately, her stronger spine means that the prank on her at the prom is the final straw, and Carrie unleashes her rage upon the school and the town at large.
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Carrie / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Carrie / int_b352e864	comment	Sexless Marriage: Carrie's parents wanted to have a marriage like that, but they were "weak" and ended up producing Carrie herself.
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Carrie / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Carrie / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Carrie's mother, unlike Carrie's Jerkass classmates, has a pretty good idea of what her daughter's capable of doing if pushed sufficiently — and she keeps right on pushing. It's pretty clear that if Margaret ever had any sense, it's long been swallowed by zealotry and madness. She's a poster child for 'diminished capacity'. One of the paramedics responding to the fires decides it's a good idea to drop a lit cigarette into the street.
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Carrie / int_b58c51d8	type	My Beloved Smother
Carrie / int_b58c51d8	comment	My Beloved Smother: An abusive example. Margaret controls pretty much everything Carrie does and is so against anything and everything even mildly sexual that she refuses to let Carrie go with Tommy to the prom and refers to breasts as "dirtypillows." However, she does "love" Carrie in a very twisted way.
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Carrie / int_b5b3599d	type	Amoral Attorney
Carrie / int_b5b3599d	comment	Chris's father is an Amoral Attorney who was clearly not a good role model for her, while Billy is from a deprived background, with a Single Mom Stripper alcoholic parent, who has a string of dickish boyfriends. However, unlike Carrie, it's never used to justify their abhorrent personality or behavior.
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Carrie / int_b5b4b077	type	The Ace
Carrie / int_b5b4b077	comment	The Ace: Tommy Ross is a good, brilliant student who is also an outstanding athlete, cool, mature for his age, socially conscious, kind, good looking, and well respected and liked by his fellow schoolmates. He's actually been scouted for the Boston Red Sox and declined because he wanted to finish college first. He's had a couple poetry chapbooks published as well.
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Carrie / int_b7bc7d28	type	Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!
Carrie / int_b7bc7d28	comment	Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: The town drunk keeps going off-topic during his testimony, to the annoyance of the investigators.
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Carrie / int_bb7ae292	type	Child by Rape
Carrie / int_bb7ae292	comment	Child by Rape: How Margaret White claims Carrie was conceived.
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Carrie / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Carrie / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: During one of their big fights, Carrie screams "You suck!" and then "YOU FUCK!" at Margaret. It gets the reaction she's hoping for.
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Carrie / int_c2b9c505	type	Strangled by the Red String
Carrie / int_c2b9c505	comment	Strangled by the Red String: In-universe, this is how Sue sees her relationship with Tommy. When pondering why they're together at one point, the only thing she comes up with is that they're both popular, and their classmates ship them. She admits years later that she doesn't think it was real love. Later, when Carrie reads her mind, she's surprised to find that she did feel something genuine for him.
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Carrie / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Carrie / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: The whole story is like one giant hope spot due to the Foregone Conclusion osmosis of the narrative. You know Carrie has powers, you know Chris is setting up a cruel prank, you know it's going to set her off and end horribly for everyone. Butâ€¦ she looks so happy for the first time ever. And she thinks her fantasies about independence and a normal life really might come true.
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Carrie / int_c3ecb1cb	type	Cinderella Plot
Carrie / int_c3ecb1cb	comment	Cinderella Plot: The book has been described as a very dark version of the Cinderella story. Carrie is abused by her religious freak mother (not stepmother), her father is dead, and she spends most of her time sewing and being bullied by kids at school. Then she gets invited by a handsome (class) prince, Tommy, to the ball (prom), which she attends without her mother's permission, where he falls in love with her. The role of the fairy godmother is split between Jerk with a Heart of Gold teacher Miss Desjardin who tries to stop Carrie's bullies from hurting her, Sue Snell (who convinces Tommy to ask Carrie), and Carrie herself, as she has magical powers (telekinesis) that allow her to go to the prom. Then it all goes to hell, Tommy dies, and Carrie mass-murders much of her town.
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Carrie / int_c4db6423	type	Yank the Dog's Chain
Carrie / int_c4db6423	comment	Yank the Dog's Chain: A particularly horrifying case that goes even more horribly wrong. On prom night, Carrie is actually having fun, feels beautiful, is being crowned prom queen with Nice Guy Tommyâ€¦ and then she's dumped in pig's blood, Tommy is killed, and everyone starts laughing at her.
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Carrie / int_c6078997	type	New England Puritan
Carrie / int_c6078997	comment	New England Puritan: Margaret White is a fundamentalist to the extreme, believing sex even within marriage is wrong and routinely going door to door to evangelize. This results in her and her daughter being outcasts in their own town.
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Carrie / int_c819533b	type	Rage Breaking Point
Carrie / int_c819533b	comment	Rage Breaking Point: The pig-blood prank, one of the most infamous in fiction. It, coupled with everyone laughing at her, is Carrie's final straw before she unleashes her revenge upon the town. Not helping is that Tommy also died next to her.
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Carrie / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
Carrie / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: The reason why Carrie is a Person of Mass Destruction in the first place. Having an erotophobic religious fanatic like Margaret White as a mother can excuse practically everything. Chris's father is an Amoral Attorney who was clearly not a good role model for her, while Billy is from a deprived background, with a Single Mom Stripper alcoholic parent, who has a string of dickish boyfriends. However, unlike Carrie, it's never used to justify their abhorrent personality or behavior.
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Carrie / int_c94f1109	type	Artistic License â€“ Chemistry
Carrie / int_c94f1109	comment	Artistic License â€“ Chemistry: The pig blood is "harvested" a few days before the prom. Realistically, it should have turned into a giant brown lump by prom night. They try to Handwave this by saying it was kept chilled. While this would have kept it from clotting for longer, it was still left exposed to the air for hours before, and would have thawed out.
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Carrie / int_cde51255	type	Antagonist Title
Carrie / int_cde51255	comment	Antagonist Title: Subverted. While Carrie is the "monster" of the story and kills scores of people, she's treated as an Anti-Villain with a sympathetic backstory and understandable motivation. The people who pushed her over the edge are treated as the real villains responsible for her rampage.
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Carrie / int_ce27dc3f	type	Protagonist Title
Carrie / int_ce27dc3f	comment	Protagonist Title: The story follows Carrie White.
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Carrie / int_ce68d46b	type	Next Sunday A.D.
Carrie / int_ce68d46b	comment	Next Sunday A.D.: The events of the book (which was published in 1974) are said to have occurred in 1979, and most of the in-universe articles that the book uses for exposition were written in the '80s. The films, however, are all set squarely in the year that they were released in.
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Carrie / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
Carrie / int_ceec4df5	comment	Roaring Rampage of Revenge: In the book and 2002 made-for-TV version, the entire town burns, but in other versions only the high school suffers.
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Carrie / int_cf1b706e	type	Flat-Earth Atheist
Carrie / int_cf1b706e	comment	Flat-Earth Atheist: Mention is made of how the "Carrie White affair" and proof of the existence of psychic powers has affected the scientific community's long-held preconceptions. While most scientists have accepted this new reality, it's mentioned that those at Duke University, among others, continue to reject it as a hoax even after the government's official report on what happened supported their existence.note Ironically, in real life, Duke was a major center of parapsychology research into psychic powers and similar phenomena in the 20th century. The Rhine Research Center, the modern heir to the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory, is still based there.
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Carrie / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
Carrie / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: Mild example. Carrie was told about menstruation before she got her first period, but she dismissed it as another attempt to prank her. After the process is explained to her, she retroactively remembers she's heard expressions referring to periods.
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Carrie / int_cfc52d52	type	Spoiled Brat
Carrie / int_cfc52d52	comment	Chris is a Spoiled Brat who pranks Carrie at the prom. That makes her indirectly responsible for the subsequent massacre. Thanks to several books written by the survivors and the investigators finding out who set up the buckets of pig's blood, Chris's reputation is indelibly ruined in death. At least there's that.
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Carrie / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
Carrie / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: Carrie attacking the boy on the bicycle for attempting to scare her.
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Carrie / int_d4c458c9	type	Teen Horror
Carrie / int_d4c458c9	comment	Teen Horror: An archetypal example. Not only are the main characters either teenagers, high school teachers, or the parents of teenagers, but the plot is set in motion because...
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Carrie / int_d66c4f39	type	Matricide
Carrie / int_d66c4f39	comment	Matricide: Abusive Margaret is killed off by her daughter Carrie while she was stabbing the latter in a manic fit.
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Carrie / int_d73e0f7f	type	"Ray of Hope" Ending
Carrie / int_d73e0f7f	comment	"Ray of Hope" Ending: In the epilogue, there is a letter from one Amelia Jenkins who says her 2-year-old daughter Annie has Psychic Powers as well. There's a common fan theory that Annie is Carrie reincarnated, as she is described in very similar terms. If this is the case, then she will probably have a happy life this time around, since her parents actually love her, and will likely use her Psychic Powers for good when she's older.
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Carrie / int_d848560f	type	Unusual Euphemism
Carrie / int_d848560f	comment	Unusual Euphemism: They're not breasts, they're "dirtypillows." Margaret also refers to Ralph's erection as "the presence of the serpent."
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Carrie / int_da1c8191	type	Writers Cannot Do Math
Carrie / int_da1c8191	comment	Writers Cannot Do Math: In the novel, we are told that Carrie is 16 years old, and an excerpt from Sue's book says Carrie was 17. But Carrie was born in September 1963 and the book takes place in May 1979, which would actually make Carrie 15, her 16th birthday still four months away. And of course, being a high school senior, she should be at least 17. Margaret also mentions that she tried to murder Carrie when she was a baby, but Ralph stopped her. That must have been quite a feat, considering he had already died before Carrie was bornnote Given Margaret's general lack of mental stability, Ralph's intervention could arguably have been her hallucination, not an author timeline error.
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Carrie / int_db2f3581	type	All Girls Want Bad Boys
Carrie / int_db2f3581	comment	All Girls Want Bad Boys: Chris with Billy, who is frequently described as a delinquent. He is the one who kills the pigs to get the blood for the prank. And even rapes Chris and threatens her life. In fact, Chris is in love with him because he's abusive to her.
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Carrie / int_dc26326	type	Two Decades Behind
Carrie / int_dc26326	comment	Two Decades Behind: Or rather one decade behind. 1960s-style mini skirts are still the height of fashion in the novel even though it is set in 1979 and was written in 1974 when hemlines had fallen and mini skirts had become passÃ©.
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Carrie / int_dc4d0326	type	Ballroom Blitz
Carrie / int_dc4d0326	comment	Ballroom Blitz: Following the prank, Carrie'sâ€¦ reaction begins at the prom in the gym and spreads. It doesn't take long before the entire "ballroom" is a mess of blood and fire.
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Carrie / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Carrie / int_dc8ba6d5	comment	The Scapegoat: Sue and Tommy are blamed for what happened with Carrie's prank, even though they were the two most well-meaning people involved in the whole affair. The investigators know at least that Chris and Billy were the instigators.
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Carrie / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
Carrie / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: The principal, who stands up for Carrie and shuts down the lawsuit threat from Chris's father. He's also concerned that Chris is going to pull something at the prom, and takes responsibility for not being able to prevent it. Ms. Desjardin is this for the most part, although initially she found Carrie annoying.
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Carrie / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
Carrie / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: An unusual in-universe example. Tommy Ross is described in one of the articles as the "Lee Harvey Oswald" who set the events in motion, by asking Carrie to prom.
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Carrie / int_dda99fa8	type	Despair Event Horizon
Carrie / int_dda99fa8	comment	Book-only, Carrie spares Sue after learning that she had no malice towards her, but she still torments Sue by rifling through her brain and forcing Sue to do the same to her, as she re-experiences the Despair Event Horizon of the whole night.
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Carrie / int_e16217f8	type	Historical Villain Upgrade
Carrie / int_e16217f8	comment	Historical Villain Upgrade: Tommy and Sue are given this treatment in-universe after the "Black Prom", with much of the public thinking of them as assholes who set off Carrie's rampage. Carrie gets this as well in-universe. While she is a Villain Protagonist if you think about it, the reader knows she's a Tragic Monster. However, the press surrounding the event presents her as a one-note villain, as Sue denounces a film adaptation for treating her this way.
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Carrie / int_e1acc872	type	From Nobody to Nightmare
Carrie / int_e1acc872	comment	From Nobody to Nightmare: Carrie goes from a shy girl in an abusive household to a mass murderer in the course of one night.
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Carrie / int_e2f13529	type	World of Jerkass
Carrie / int_e2f13529	comment	World of Jerkass: Everyone except Carrie, Sue (eventually), Tommy, and a few minor characters are jerks. Even Ms. Desjardin turns out to be more of a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing than the Cool Teacher she seems to be.
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Carrie / int_e4b69188	type	Very Loosely Based on a True Story
Carrie / int_e4b69188	comment	Very Loosely Based on a True Story: Stephen King based the character of Carrie White on two girls he knew; one while a high school student and another from when he was a teacher. Both were severely bullied social outcasts with strange mothers, one of whom was a deranged religious fanatic, and both girls died just a few years after high school.
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Carrie / int_e73f9ae5	type	Accuser of the Brethren
Carrie / int_e73f9ae5	comment	Accuser of the Brethren: Why Chris and Sue have their falling out in every adaption; Sue changes, Chris does not. If anything, she gets far more evil than a standard Alpha Bitch.
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Carrie / int_e7d7aa38	type	Spared, but Not Forgiven
Carrie / int_e7d7aa38	comment	Spared, but Not Forgiven: Book-only, Carrie spares Sue after learning that she had no malice towards her, but she still torments Sue by rifling through her brain and forcing Sue to do the same to her, as she re-experiences the Despair Event Horizon of the whole night. It's also implied she spares Miss Desjardin and Principal Grayle for trying to help her fit in, but it isn't as clear.
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Carrie / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
Carrie / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Chris's father actually comes down on her when she's caught at a drug bust and she mouths off to him, though he only does it because he feels she's putting his reputation at risk.
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Carrie / int_e8760868	type	Space Whale Aesop
Carrie / int_e8760868	comment	Space Whale Aesop: Don't ever, ever, EVER laugh at the misfortune of others. And, don't actively pull pranks on those showing abundant signs of being really close to the edge. Seriously, don't, they'll kill you with their telekinesis. At least, that's the only real comeuppance Carrie's bullies received.
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Carrie / int_e9f517e1	type	Artistic License â€“ Geography
Carrie / int_e9f517e1	comment	Artistic License â€“ Geography: While Chamberlain, Maine is a real place, Stephen King took a lot of liberties in portraying it, and outright said that it's not meant to be the real village, just another town in Maine with the same name.
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Carrie / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
Carrie / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Carrie's mother, unlike Carrie's Jerkass classmates, has a pretty good idea of what her daughter's capable of doing if pushed sufficiently — and she keeps right on pushing. It's pretty clear that if Margaret ever had any sense, it's long been swallowed by zealotry and madness. She's a poster child for 'diminished capacity'.
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Carrie / int_eb8f64a6	type	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Carrie / int_eb8f64a6	comment	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Sue just wanted to do something nice for Carrie, so she asked her boyfriend Tommy to take her to prom and show her a good time. This would ultimately lead to Carrie's Roaring Rampage of Revenge that leaves the majority of the town killed, traumatized, and mind-raped. On top of that, Sue's boyfriend Tommy ends up getting killed in Chris's prank when the bucket hits his head.
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Carrie / int_ebcf99b5	type	The Unmasqued World
Carrie / int_ebcf99b5	comment	The Unmasqued World: Discussed mildly at the end of the book, the government makes zero attempt to hide the fact that what happened in Chamberlain was a powerful psychic going on a rampage, shattering science's view of the nonexistence of the paranormal (save a few universities who still believe it a hoax). In fact, the researchers want to publicize it as a warning, convinced the likelihood of more telekinetics out there is 99%; but the state investigators and the White Commission decide that "we find no reason to believe that a recurrence is possible or even likely." Cue Amelia's letter.
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Carrie / int_edbb1357	type	List of Transgressions
Carrie / int_edbb1357	comment	List of Transgressions: After the shower incident, we're given a very long list of the many horrible things Carrie's bullies have done to her over the years. When Chris's father threatens to sue the school, the principal gives a ridiculously long list of all of the horrible things Chris has done to unpopular/outcast students (and she skipped her punishments for all of them).
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Carrie / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
Carrie / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Subverted, with many characters sharing the same first or last name. Most confusingly, there appear to be two different people named Estelle Horan.
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Carrie / int_f0fc8518	type	High-School Dance
Carrie / int_f0fc8518	comment	High-School Dance: The prom itself where the infamous prank happens. Everyone's looking forward to it, so much so that Mrs. Desjardin threatening to not let the girls go for what they did to Carrie really makes them shut their mouths.
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Carrie / int_f1ac9897	type	Female Misogynist
Carrie / int_f1ac9897	comment	Female Misogynist: Margaret White â€” the evils of women and female sexuality is one of her favorite subjects. She's so against sexuality, in fact, that she thought that sex with her own husband was sinful. It's implied that this comes, in part, from troubled relationships with her own mother and grandmother.
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Carrie / int_f1e837cc	type	Mind over Matter
Carrie / int_f1e837cc	comment	Mind over Matter: Carrie's main power is being able to move objects with her mind, which starts off as a small skill and transforms into a deadly ability.
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Carrie / int_f237981e	type	The Alleged Car
Carrie / int_f237981e	comment	The Alleged Car: Billy drives a rusty, beat-up, jacked-in-the-back '61 Chevy Biscayne with a broken headlight.
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Carrie / int_f32d85ab	type	20 Minutes into the Future
Carrie / int_f32d85ab	comment	20 Minutes into the Future: The book is set in 1979, five years after it was published.
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Carrie / int_f38dccf5	type	Strolling Through the Chaos
Carrie / int_f38dccf5	comment	Strolling Through the Chaos: All of which is being caused, directly or otherwise, by Carrie.
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Carrie / int_f4d00fb0	type	Deadline News
Carrie / int_f4d00fb0	comment	Deadline News: The Associated Press bulletin from Chamberlain goes silent after Carrie opens a gas main in the middle of town, which takes only a spark from a lit cigarette a few minutes later to send the offices of the town's newspaper up in flames.
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Carrie / int_f76842b1	type	The Fundamentalist
Carrie / int_f76842b1	comment	The Fundamentalist: Carrie's mom is a particularly psycho version of this trope, who is extreme to the point of insanity. Margaret White makes the Westboro Baptist Church look downright progressive. She thinks sex, even within marriage, is sinful and that women develop breasts if they "weren't raised right". She didn't even tell Carrie about menstruation, because she thinks it is God's punishment for sinful thoughts.
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Carrie / int_f770e79d	type	Punished for Sympathy
Carrie / int_f770e79d	comment	Punished for Sympathy: Carrie sees Tommy's death this way. As she runs from the prom, she bitterly thinks to herself that he was killed "for bringing a plague into the place of light."
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Carrie / int_f7b2ed44	type	Senior Year Struggles
Carrie / int_f7b2ed44	comment	Senior Year Struggles: Carrie's already terrible high school experience gets much more intense and awful in senior year. She gets her period for the first time, much later than anyone else, discovers her powers, and she goes to prom and tries to fit in specifically because she is so full of dread about the end of school marking an even darker and more hopeless end into adulthood.
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Carrie / int_fa692561	type	Recessive Super Genes
Carrie / int_fa692561	comment	Recessive Super Genes: Margaret says that her grandmother was telekinetic, and Carrie is. Margaret is not; it skips two generations. Same for Amelia's observation that her daughter's powers are like her own grandmother's.
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Carrie / int_fd4f8299	type	Well-Intentioned Extremist
Carrie / int_fd4f8299	comment	In the book, there is a flashback from Margaret, involving her own grandmother (Carrie's great-grandmother). The woman would display her telekinesis and cackle madly. She'd also gone completely senile at an early age before dying of a heart attack. It's shown that she was a pretty frightening figure for Margaret to grow up with, which is probably why she ended up being a crazy religious fanatic. It's subtle, but gives her a very slight Well-Intentioned Extremist view.
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Carrie / int_fdbd6162	type	With Friends Like These...
Carrie / int_fdbd6162	comment	With Friends Like These...: Billy deliberately leaves his friends' fingerprints on the buckets of blood, amused at the thought of them getting arrested in the aftermath of the prank. While they do get investigated, they all point the fingers towards Billy as the main instigator and say that it was Chris's idea.
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Carrie / int_fe614133	type	Beauty Is Never Tarnished
Carrie / int_fe614133	comment	Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Played with by Carrie. Not only does the prank at prom seriously mess her up, she remains that way for the rest of the story. However, some people argue it makes her look more striking and distinctive.
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Carrie / int_fec6ea72	type	BloodSplatteredInnocents
Carrie / int_fec6ea72	comment	Blood-Splattered Innocents: Carrie gets a bucket of pig's blood dumped on her after being elected prom queen in a mean-spirited prank by Chris. It turns out to be the final straw, as Carrie snaps afterwards. Some of the other students also get blood on them from the bucket, but more particularly, Carrie does a variety of this when she drenches everyone locked inside the gym with water. This starts a major fire, killing them all.
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Carrie	hasFeature	The End... Or Is It? / int_b5c89107
Carrie	hasFeature	The Freelance Shame Squad / int_b5c89107
Carrie	hasFeature	The Great Fire / int_b5c89107
Carrie	hasFeature	The Prom Plot / int_b5c89107
Carrie	hasFeature	The Three Faces of Eve / int_b5c89107
Carrie	hasFeature	Through the Eyes of Madness / int_b5c89107
Carrie	hasFeature	Troubled Abuser / int_b5c89107
Carrie	hasFeature	Truer to the Text / int_b5c89107
Carrie	hasFeature	20 Minutes into the Future / int_b5c89107
Carrie	hasFeature	Unholy Matrimony / int_b5c89107
Carrie	hasFeature	Unique Moment Ruined / int_b5c89107
Carrie	hasFeature	Unstable Powered Child / int_b5c89107
Carrie	hasFeature	Used to Be a Sweet Kid / int_b5c89107
Carrie	hasFeature	Where I Was Born and Razed / int_b5c89107
Carrie	hasFeature	With Great Power Comes Great Hotness / int_b5c89107
Carrie	hasFeature	Wondrous Ladies Room / int_b5c89107
Carrie	hasFeature	World of Jerkass / int_b5c89107
Carrie	hasFeature	Fictional Document / int_b5c89107
Carrie	hasFeature	Menstrual Menace / int_b5c89107

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