Margaret was very evil and abusive to her daughter, Carrie. Carrie was also uncoordinated in her movements and once fell flat on her face during dance class in sophomore year and chipped a tooth. Enraged, Carrie used her powers to close every door of the gym, locking everyone in, and turned the lights red. On the eve of her departure, she told An-mei a story from her childhood, when she was a little girl about An-mei's age. She locks her in the closet and orders her to pray for "forgiveness" when she learns about the shower incident, because she said it was a "curse" for Eve's disobedience offering Adam the fruit and creating the original sin. Later that night, Tommy picked up Carrie for the Prom as he promised, while Margaret stayed by herself and prayed silently in another room. The two were married on March 23rd, 1962, shortly after, but on April 2nd, 1962, Margaret was admitted to Westover Doctors Hospital for a suspected miscarriage. So as for revenge, Chris had her abusive and greaser boyfriend, Billy Nolan, who was the leader of a dangerous gang in Chamberlain and a few of their friends, partake in the plot against Carrie to embarrass her in front of the entire school. However, she also entered a comatose state because of the murder attempt of her mother on her. Now she's ready because "the devil has come home" (2.733). Her husband, Ralph White, died before their daughter Carrie was born. Margaret calls her a witch, but relents. ", over and over again non-stop. She then throws Margaret softly on the ground, as Margaret mourns. Chris and Billy eventually arrived at the school unseen and quietly lurked outside the gym patiently. Her telekinesis would give her the ability to make her tormentors pay for what they had done. Sissy Spacek insisted that real blood should be spilled onto her, which the director. At the gym, Carrie was well received by Frieda Jason, who complimented her dress, while Norma and Freddy DeLois mocked her and the others noticed how different she looked. She then says, she thought that Carrie was a cancer when she was being born, Carrie reacts in pain and says it's awful acting a little aggressive on Margaret on the way. Carrie admits that she doesnt want to kill herself, she just wants to stop hurting. Margaret then deduced that "Satan" had began his work on Carrie, but the girl made it clear that it was her power and not Satan. An emotionally abusive mom will constantly put you down, shame you, and humiliate you, especially in front of others. tries to tell her mother, but she is disinterested and attempts to walk away after telling her no. Margaret stabs Carrie in the back, but they fly in opposite directions. When Carrie was almost 3-years-old, she encountered a young and beautiful neighbor girl named, The film versions of Carrie are heavily different from. As Mr. Fromm read a poem written by the popular student Tommy Ross, and sarcastically expressed his distaste for it, Carrie shyly commented that she thought Tommy's writing was "beautiful". An autopsy is performed on Carrie's body. Kevin sighs that home just feels like another stop in his travels to Philadelphia, New York, Boston, and Maine. At the beginning of the film, Carrie has her first period in the showers and is harassed by Chris and her gang. Carrie's pleasure came to an end when a bucket of blood was spilled on her, much to her horror. Margaret White in Carrie was portrayed by Julianne Moore. When she swam in the camp's lake, they ducked her head underwater. Still, Margaret's death continues to haunt Carrie afterwards during her journey to Florida with Sue. As Tommy arrived, Carrie mentally telekinetically pushed her mother onto the bed to contain her, and left after saying she loved her. After scanning Sue's brain, she realizes that she had nothing to do with the prank. She also threatened Carrie with a butcher knife. In the novel, Carrie White is described as being slightly unattractive, she is a "frog among swans". Margaret is seen glaring behind the bushes, when she sees Carrie going with Tommy in a limo. At the end after Sue's words, Carrie's headstone cracks before exploding, you hear her screams. There her own mother accused her of being a witch and tried to drown her. what was he called. Margaret ultimately became extremely co-dependent on her daughter, Carrie who was trapped within the unhealthy and sick world Margaret had created for them both. Margaret White is the main antagonist featured in the novel and all three film adaptions. Carrie questioned why she was not told by Carrie who called or was telling the girls laughed at her over her ignorance. In the first section of the story, Carrie had a greasy face with blackheads and wore stockings that were always running or about to run and she was always showing sweat stains under the arms of her blouses. Seconds after the blood dump, one of the buckets fell on top of Tommy's head, knocking him out instantly and possibly even killing him. Carrie finds out about the truth behind her Prom attendance after her mind is bonded to. She feels amazing, as if her whole life has led to this moment. Carrie makes the knife fly off the desk onto the ground, without her mother noticing. by Carolyn Steber. With her telekinesis, she made the front door swing wide open and she destroyed all the items in the house as she entered the doorway. However, Carrie felt the car approaching and wrestled the oncoming vehicle with her telekinesis and violently slammed it full force into the roadhouse. She locks her in the closet and orders her to pray for "forgiveness" when she learns about the shower incident, because she said it was a "curse" for Eve's disobedience offering Adam the fruit and creating the original sin. After the explosion, Carrie became weak and collapsed in the middle of the lot out of exhaustion from overusing her powers and the blood loss caused by her wound. In an alternate ending, we see Sue giving birth to the baby mentioned by Carrie. Carrie mercilessly left the remaining Prom goers trapped inside with the now-dead Tommy to be consumed by the hellish inferno created by her telekinetic abilities and the rest was history. The level of Carrie's "un-coolness" and the height of constant and verbal abuse she endured at the hands of her mother and peers and fellow classmates in the novel was far more extreme compared to the versions of the films. With Margaret dead, Carrie then left her home as the whole neighborhood street was on fire, consuming all the houses on the block one after the other. Knowing she was responsible for what had happened to Ewen High and downtown Chamberlain, Billy tried to run Carrie down with his car to kill her. Unaware of this, Carrie believed she was bleeding to death and asked for help from the other girls. Carrie seemingly keeps her powers a secret from her mother until she talks about the Prom. Carrie (along with George, Erika, and Ms. Desjardin) is saddened by this. The bucket thenkills Tommy and everyone laughs at Carrie. It's a rather big mystery, due to the fact Carrie killed almost all of the witnesses in her mass homicide, and with so many people dead and so much destroyed outerly and innerly, Chamberlain becomes a virtual ghost town, and even a popular tourist attraction because of Carries actions. Carrie attempts to walk off the stage. After that it was buried. Once, Tommy had even been approached by the Boston Red Sox team, who wanted to recruit him after he graduated. Margaret gave birth to Carrie while in her house without medical assistance, causing Margaret to lose some blood. Her relationship with her daughter was extremely abusive from the time Carrie was a baby. WebAt this point in the novel, we also strongly suspect, because of evidence that Dana herself has provided, that Rufus poses a sexual threat to her. At home, Carrie's life was just as awful. She warns her readers to never forget about Carrie, or the events that occurred in Chamberlain, or something like it could happen all over again. WebDana comments on the poor medical care for pregnant women in the past, but Kevin corrects her. As she walked home, Chris attempted to run her down with her car, but Carrie attacked her, causing the car to keel over and explode, killing Chris and Billy Nolan. The 2013 remake of Carrie later teased the possibility that Carrie was not dead, when the ending showed her tombstone cracking apart, indicating that there is possibly still life within her body, assuming she was ever buried. Carrie's father Ralph, had another daughter named Rachel Lang, who was also a carrier of telekinesis. Carrie finally made it back home. A while later, her daughter, Carrie was conceived and Ralph was killed in a construction accident. She also confessed that Carrie was conceived by marital rape and that she was a punishment from God. Carrie's extremely powerful telekinetic abilities initiated a highly destructive rampage, causing much worse disasters in downtown Chamberlain than at the high school. Her memory about what happened will haunt her for the rest of her life. When Carrie goes out to look for a dress and comes home late Margaret gets furious and says she worried about her and was wondering where she was. After Carrie lifts her up, Carrie says she's sorry while she summons telekinetically stabbing things. Especially on the day she came home after the shower incident, with the implication that this was one out of many instances, Carrie was forced into the closet. Since 1st grade, Carrie had been the school's scapegoat and outcast. This version of Margaret is portrayed by Piper Laurie in the 1976 film. When Carrie reveals that she has been asked to go to the Prom and that she said yes, Margaret tells her not to go, which forces Carrie to throw her on to the bed. Webcarrie got her period for the first time, she thought she was bleeding to death, they were throwing tampons at her and telling her to plug it up. The knife/dagger caused Carrie's death because of Carrie's blood loss and Carrie's body shut The idea that this could be the girl's first period did not occur to Carrie's female classmates. Countless of bystanders were killed in the streets and electrocuted by the wires of the fallen power lines as they evacuated from their burning homes. In a deleted scene, Margaret grabs a knife and most likely washes the blood of her hands. Later, she and Tommy win the election and Carrie is handed flowers while George and Erika cheer them on. But when the crowd began to sing the school song as tradition, this was the cue for an unseen Chris to pull a rope cord that caused the two buckets above to tip over and drench Carrie and Tommy with the rotting pig's blood while they sat on the thrones for the King and Queen. She desperately wants to please her abusive, Bible-thumping mother, but even more badly, she just wants a normal life. "POWER" and oh, what a word that was! While a male bystander is walking nearby, he carelessly drops his lighted cigarette on the ground, not realizing the streets are covered in gas. On August 17th, 1966, her house was deluged with stones from the sky, which were brought on by Carrie's telekinetic power after she punished her particularly hard. Indeed, Carrie was at the bottom of the social pyramid, but what no one knew, not even her mother, was that Carrie White was no ordinary girl, as she had been blessed or cursed, with hidden telekinetic and telepathic powers that were dormant during her youth, but brought to full force by the time she was in high school after she unexpectedly had her first period in the girl's locker room. Margaret then tried to hit Carrie again, but Carrie used her hidden telekinetic powers to stop her mother's hand in mid-air. 2 boys caught for skipping French 1, got a weeks detention for staring at the blood. While practicing at home, the lights flicker and her mother comes up with a knife to check if she is all right. Chris had Billy viciously slaughter two pigs at a local farm and drain their blood into two big metal buckets. Additionally that part of the town of Chamberlain is deserted. Margaret insisted for Carrie to stay and they could burn their dress, because her classmates would laugh at her. WebHowever, Carrie realized that she did not care about where her power came from as she found it to be a special thing about herself. whenever Carrie tries to stop her mom from hurting herself, Carries mom slaps Carrie with her Bible and knocks her over. But not one of her calls ever went through. But they never found any other church in the area that was up to their traditional standards, so they held worship at home instead. Just as planned, Carrie and Tommy were announced as the winners. It also shows that Carrie was not consciously aware of what she was doing, because the prank and the subsequent laughter had put her in a temporary, catatonic state of mind where her inner rage took over and unleashed her secret powers which led to the subconscious activation of her prom rampage and the tragic destruction of the town. Age In 2013, Hank Hunt's daughter, Kari, was attacked and killed by her estranged husband in a Marshall, Texas hotel room. She demands that she is going and wants to be normal. Carrie is especially unattractive because of her mother's control over her. Eventually, the gym exploded a half-hour later, demolishing the entire school. Updated: May 21, 2021. Sexuality Carrie, still covered in blood, much of it being her own by now, and one of her bare feet was bleeding from stepping on a broken bottle in the streets, had the intention of finally killing her mother who had been waiting for her daughter to return to her. However, one night in December of 1963, Ralph tried to seduce Margaret and she kicked him out of the house. However, little did Carrie or anyone else know was that she was walking into a vile prank initiated by another girl in her class, Chris Hargensen, the main leader of Carrie's tormentors who ruthlessly bullied her, as well as all her life. The event was witnessed by Margaret, who attempted to kill Carrie as a result. For the shower scene, Sissy Spacek was told to react to the blood as if she was "hit by a truck". WebCarrie White : [Sue is shocked and upset. Serving as the titular main villainous protagonist of Stephen King's first horror novel, Carrie, its three film adaptations Carrie film, Carrie TV Film and Carrie 2013 remake, a mentioned character in The Dead Zone and IT, and a posthumous character in The Rage: Carrie 2. The force is to strong, Carrie falls to her knees. She also is very mad. She survives the attempted murder, but only barely, thanks to Sue who enters the house, finds her and manages to revive her. All the while, Carrie was repeatedly teased and bullied by her classmates at every school she ever attended. Carrie rushes to her closet, carrying her mother and stayed there as the house came down, dying. While many people have narcissistic traits, only a few are true narcissists. Perhaps only her soul. Margaret first discovers Carrie's telekinetic powers, when she slams all the windows shut trapping her in and Carrie tells her she is going to the Prom. While Moore's Margaret is just as abusive towards Carrie, she also displays genuine love towards her. Tommy was hit on the head by the bucket above them and fell unconscious. Margaret was very evil and abusive to her daughter, Carrie. Carrie then stays with her as the house gets crushed and sinks into the ground, presumably killing Carrie, too. As Margaret tried to hit Carrie again, Carrie stood up to her mother and stopped Margaret's hand in mid-air with her telekinesis, preventing the hand from reaching her face. She mortally did wound Carrie, but Carrie, using her telekinesis to stop her heart killing her. She was killed by her mother who immediately got killed by a heart attack via Carrie's telekinesis and brought back to life by her best friend Sue Snell in the second adaptation (2002) and it is hinted that she lives in the 2013 adaptation as well when cracks appear on her gravestone in the closing sequence. WebUpon her way home, Carrie uses her recently discovered telekinesis to stop a boy from teasing her. Carries powers gave her the thrill that she had never felt all her sad, depressing life. Carrie arrived home and found out that Margaret had been informed of the incident. Carrie is shocked and stares at Tommy in disbelief. She was a strong woman and a Christian fanatic. Margaret invited Carrie into one last prayer, and as the girl recited the Lord's prayer, comforted in her arms, Margaret stabbed her in the back. Died But instead, he finds a body hanging from the ceiling presumably Carrie's. Her mother lets her out and asks Carrie if she finished praying. In the second iteration, Carrie survived The Black Prom and the trauma associated with it. The mother hurts herself (example: She stabs herself with sewing needles). and the word echoed in her mind. In preparation for her role, Sissy Spacek isolated herself from the rest of the ensemble, decorated her dressing room with heavy religious iconography and studied Gustave Dor's illustrated Bible. People all over the world are also scared that another telekinetic child could be born. After the events of the prom, Carrie visits her grave for the first and last time and before she goes with Sue to Florida. In sports, Carrie was always missing the ball, even in kickball or clumsily running into the net during volleyball. Family information Carrie could see with her telepathic powers where the real Miss Desjardin was and how she was still laughing like everyone else. Carrie stood her ground and refused. She was born in 1966, according to grave marker at the end of the film. Carrie Underwood has finally revealed the details of the nasty fall that caused her to need 40 stitches in her face and left her with a broken wrist. She faced the two who she needed to finally kill most of all before the night was over, before she was completely finished with her rampage of revenge. Then Billy placed the buckets over the school's stage on a high rafter beam completely hidden out of sight. Margaret then appeared to seemingly comfort Carrie, telling her daughter that she was conceived after Ralph got drunk and they made love, which Margaret regretted. Carrie arrived home and found the rooms filled with lighted candles and, washing the blood away, burst in tears. assassination. Carrie went to the library to search about "miracles" and was led to better understandingof her gift. Once the classmates found a love letter from Carrie to a boy named, One year, Carrie was given the cruel nickname "pudding pop" by everyone and the next year she became known by the cruel nickname "pizza face" by everyone. Carrie was raised isolated from society by her single mother after her father Ralph White left them for another woman. Margaret then tells Carrie after the Prom massacre at home, that she was raped by Ralph, gains her trust and then stabs Carrie in the back. She then dropped them upon the wet ground below. After the death of 73 high school students in 1979, many people since then have left the town. to protect Carrie from things that she believes would be far worse Carrie begins walking away, ignoring Tommy's attempts to get her back on stage. On prom night, Carrie kills many of her classmates by willing their bodies into walls, and sparking electrocutions and fires with her brain. Also, most importantly, Carrie let loose a strange side effect of her abilities: "broadcast telepathy," which means that anyone within a certain radius of the disaster area suddenly found themselves learning about the destruction at Ewen High and downtown Chamberlain. Biographical information As a result, Carrie's mind lost sight of the gymnasium doors for a second and some of the Prom goers almost got out. The younger Carrie was played by Jodelle Ferland who causes a rain of fiery stones to fall out of the sky like in the novel. WebWhy does Carrie's mom hurt herself 2013? 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