Carrie White

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Carrietta N. White (b. 21 Sept 1995; d. 22 Jun 2013), simply known as Carrie White, is the titular protagonist from Carrie. She was the daughter of Margaret Brigman and Ralph White, the granddaughter of Judith Cochran and John Brigman, and the great-granddaughter of Sadie Cochran.

History

For nearly all of her life Carrie, whose father died in a construction accident, was berated and abused by her mentally ill religiously-fanatical mother and was later mistreated constantly by her classmates. Carrie also posessed hidden telekinetic and telepathic powers that were dormant during her youth, but brought to full force by the time she was in high school and had her first period. Sadly, when a so-called "revenge prank" at her senior prom pushed her beyond her limits, Carrie used those powers to eliminate everyone who ever teased her before returning home to confront (and later kill) her mother. In one iteration of her story, Carrie died as a result of injuries. In the second iteration, Carrie survived the prom night massacre and the trauma associated with it. She then made plans to move to Florida and start her life over with the help of Sue. In the third it is not clear.

But regardless of the iteration, Carrie has been vilified by the residents of Chamberlain, only because she chose to fight back against the constant tormenting in a way that most people do not understand.

Novel

In the novel, Carrie White was slightly overweight with pimples on the back of her neck, back and buttocks and had flat mousey hair. She lived in Chamberlain, Maine with her mother. The abuse that Carrie endured in the book was far more extreme than in the movie. Here are two examples: a boy rubbed peanut butter into Carrie's hair when she fell asleep in study hall one day; also, she was also made fun of by other kids at a summer camp when she came into contact with some poison ivy. Also, Carrie was kicked and shoved into the prayer closet by her mother when she came home after the shower incident (with the implication, that this was one out of many instances, where Carrie was forced into the closet for offenses she might not have even committed).

There are instances where Carrie's powers manifested themselves. For example, when she was almost three years old, Carrie asked her next door neighbor, a young woman, about her "dirty pillows" and was severely scolded by Margaret. Margaret also threatened Carrie with Ralph's butcher knife. Suddenly, a shower of hail fell on the Whites' bungalow, while Carrie was being reprimanded yet again by her mother. Following that incident, a rain of stones pelted against their home and a table was nearly sent flying through a window. Carrie was also able to read other people's minds, namely Miss Desjardin, the gym instructor, who harbored both disgust and sympathy for the young woman.

When Carrie was sixteen years old, she had her first period while taking a shower in the girls change room. Her mother did not discuss the concept of menstruation with Carrie, resulting in Carrie to think, she was bleeding to death. What's more is, that this could be the girl's first period did not occur to Carrie's classmates. As with everything else, Carrie was teased mercilessly by the girls in her physical education class by throwing tampons and sanitary napkins at her and chanting "Plug it up" until Miss Desjardin came out to stop the spectacle. After slapping the hysterical girl, she then explained menstruation to Carrie (albeit begrudgingly) and even helped to put on her clothes again. A light bulb suddenly burns out above them. This event of the showers "re-triggered" Carrie's powers, which were dormant for most of her childhood.

More of Carrie's powers were demonstrated that day. Assistant Principal Mr. Morton, who dismissed Carrie for the day, kept calling her "Cassie." Carrie yelled, that was not her name and his ash tray fell off his desk by itself. While she walked home, a five year old boy, Tommy Erbter, verbally abused Carrie while riding past her on his bicycle. As Carrie looked at the boy with rage, he unexpectedly fell off the bicycle. This surprised her, but on her way home she remembered another incident, when she was young, when rocks fell on her house, while her mother was mistreating her for having had contact with a neighbour she called herself a "slut", realising, this must also have been an action of hers.

Later, after Margaret found out about the incident from the school, she beat Carrie, forced her on her knees with her to pray and locked Carrie in the closet for hours to pray to God for "forgiveness" for having committed the "original sin" of becoming a woman.

Later on, Carrie was asked by Tommy Ross to go to the senior prom with him. Tommy was the boyfriend of one of the girls who tormented Carrie, Sue Snell, and Carrie had a secret crush on him. Sue herself believed that Tommy was the father of her unborn child. Although originally against the idea, Carrie subsequently accepted Tommy's invitation. She was nervous and happy all at the same time. When Carrie told her mother that she had been invited to the prom by Tommy, she threw her tea in Carrie's face. She told Carrie that all boys want from girls is sex. She then proceeded to slap Carrie and ordered her to go in the closet to pray, but Carrie refused. As Margaret tried to hit Carrie again, Carrie stopped her mother's hand in mid-air with her powers and told her mother, that she wants to live her own life and that things are going to change, the ultimate blasphemy to her.

Just before the prom, Carrie tried on the prom dress she made. Margaret ordered Carrie to burn the dress and demanded that they do penance together, but Carrie refused. To get Carrie to change her mind, Margaret scratched herself on her face and punched herself in the mouth. Carrie was unmoved by her mother's actions and used her powers to slide her mother out the door of her room. Later that night, Tommy picked up Carrie for the prom, while Margaret prayed in another room.

At the Thomas Ewan High School prom, Carrie began opening up to her peers and even made a few jokes with some of the kids. For the first time since she can remember, Carrie enjoyed herself. Of course, her enjoyment was destroyed by a prank initiated by another girl in her class, Chris Hargensen, the leader of the particular lot of the Divagirls, who teased Carrie earlier in the book. Chris, her boyfriend Billy Nolan, and some of their other friends, plotted revenge against Carrie by placing two buckets filled with pigs' blood above hers and Tommy's heads and rigging the ballots for prom king and queen to ensure that Carrie and Tommy would win. The couple won and when they went onto the stage to be crowned, Chris pulled a rope cord and splattered Carrie and Tommy with the pig blood. Tommy was knocked unconscious by a falling bucket. Carrie, overcome with grief, fled from the gym, but returned later upon realising, that she had a gift, that no one else had. Carrie then set about locking all the prom goers inside, teacher and student alike and turning a fire hose on all of the girls to ruin their dresses and hair. However, once the water made contact with some electrical equipment in the gym and started a massive fire, Carrie decided to leave everyone inside to the mercy of the inferno created by her telekinetic abilities. However, a few students, Miss Desjardin, and Henry Grayle escaped via the gym's fire exit in time.

Later, Carrie's powers initiated a worse disaster in downtown Chamberlain than at the high school gym: she somehow made gas stations explode and power lines snap. The destruction burned all of downtown to the ground. Also, Carrie let loose a 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 Ewan High and downtown Chamberlain. They also learned from this telepathy, that it was Carrie White causing the destruction, even if they did not know who "Carrie White" was. During the entire event, Carrie seemed completely catatonic and was believed to even be "smiling" as she moved along. She then went into a cathedral to pray, while at the same time, objects from the church (such as pews, hymnals and a Communion set) were thrown. While she prayed, she also let loose a number of power lines, which resulted in a number of people being electrocuted to death.

Carrie returned home that night and Margaret told her the story of how she considered killing herself after having premarital intercourse, her miscarriage, and that Carrie was conceived by marital rape. Margaret, believing that Carrie was completely possessed by Satan himself, took out Ralph's knife from the folds of her dress. She told Carrie, she tried to kill her twice before during the first few years of Carrie's life, but she "backslid." As Carrie fell down to her knees, Margaret stabbed her daughter in the shoulder, causing her to bleed heavily. In return, Carrie used her powers to slow her mother's heart, eventually stopping it completely. She then went to the roadhouse where her father drunk himself into a stupor before raping Margaret and caught Chris and Billy fleeing from within. The two tried to run Carrie down with Billy's car, but Carrie "felt" the car approaching and wrestled control away with her telekinesis to slam the vehicle into the roadhouse. The car exploded, killing both Billy and Chris and it also destroyed the roadhouse. After the explosion, Carrie collapsed on the lot out of blood loss.

Sue arrived some time later. She helped Carrie fulfill her last wish and see the stars before she died and invited Carrie into her mind to see that she had no part in planning the nasty evening. Carrie found that Sue was innocent and never really felt any hatred towards her. After crying out for her mother, Carrie died. Soon after, Sue could feel herself miscarrying, though she initially thought that she was apparently having her period. Whether it was really miscarrying or a period, done by Carrie, or not, will never be known.

1976 film

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Sissy Spacek as Carrie in the 1976 film Carrie.

The 1976 movie version of Carrie was portrayed by Sissy Spacek. Here, Carrie had long strawberry blonde hair and clear skin and the plot of the movie is close to that of the novel, but certain differences did occur, which will be discussed elsewhere at a later time.

This Carrie was similar to the "novel Carrie," in that she was abused by her mother, Margaret, and constantly teased by her classmates. Carrie had her first period while showering after a PE class and, instead of the other girls helping her out, they threw sanitary napkins at Carrie and yelled, "Plug it up!" The gym teacher, here named Ms. Collins, stopped the debacle.

Then Carrie was asked to the upcoming senior prom at Norman Bates High School by the handsome Tommy Ross, boyfriend to Sue Snell, one of Carrie's tormentors. Sue persuaded Tommy to take Carrie to the prom in her place out of guilt for her part in the shower incident.

As the story goes, Carrie's mother would not hear of her child doing something such as going to the prom, for Margaret constantly reminded Carrie, that boys only want to satisfy their intimate desires with girls, and once that happens it will lead Carrie down a road of endless sin. Carrie, however, had had enough of hearing, that everything was sinful. She saw the prom as a new beginning. A further fight with her mother on the night of the prom only fueled Carrie's resolve.

"Oh goodness, child! Don't ya know I can see inside you? I can read you like an open book if I wanted to!."

Carrie began to gradually emerge from the shell, under which she had lived since childhood, as she mingled with the other prom goers. When she and Tommy were called up to the stage later in the evening to be crowned the prom king and queen, Carrie could hardly contain her joy, because she had finally felt, what it was like to "belong."

But it didn't last long, because, while Carrie and Tommy were on stage, Chris Hargensen and her boyfriend Billy Nolan were hiding underneath to keep tabs on Carrie's location, so that they could unleash the torrent of pig´s blood upon her, when the moment came. When it was over, poor Carrie had blood in her hair and on her gown. Tommy was seething at what happened, but the bucket. that held the blood, fell on his head, knocking him to the stage floor, maybe even killing him in front of Carrie. While some stood in disbelief, most were mad with laughter, especially some of Billy's crew and one of Chris' clique, Norma Watson. Ms. Collins, who, earlier, had come to relay her prom experience to Carrie,

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Carrie before the prank

was nearly in tears over this incident.

As for Carrie, she stood alone on the stage as the last threads of her sanity were broken and had a vision of everyone laughing at her, the teachers too.

Finally caving in, Carrie remembered her "gift" and began exacting revenge by locking the gym doors, where the prom took place (crushing Billy's friends within); releasing a fire hose and spraying everyone in sight and eventually hitting electrical apparatus and setting off a huge fire. Carrie left the gym at the climax of her revenge leaving all the students to burn. Later, when Chris and Billy attempted to mow her down with Billy's car and effectively complete their plans, Carrie telekinetically threw the car into a roll before causing it to explode, killing both passengers burning them in flames. When Carrie returned home, she found both floor and ceiling was littered with lit candles. She then went upstairs to wash the blood from her body and change into a nightgown. She called out for "Momma," and found Margaret waiting for her. Carrie broke down and told her mother about everything that went down at the prom, and in turn Margaret told her daughter about the night

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Carrie after the prank

she was conceived. Margaret then brought the child to her knees so that both could pray together. Meanwhile, Margaret had "snapped" earlier on and hidden a knife under one of the floor boards to stab Carrie with, having fallen to the belief that her daughter was ruled by Satan. While they both recited the Lord's Prayer, Margaret stabbed Carrie and caused her to fall downstairs, backwards. She then stalked the frightened child throughout the house, eventually backing Carrie into a corner. Finally, Carrie used her powers to "crucify" her mother to the kitchen doorway.

When it was over, Carrie was overwhelmed by guilt, grief and rage. She screamed to the top of her lungs and grabbed her mother. However, Carrie's powers "spiraled" out of control and caused the house to collapse around her and her mother. Quickly removing Margaret's body from the doorway, Carrie raced for the kitchen closet where she spent many nights being forced to pray for forgiveness and shut the door. Within, Carrie was hit in the head by falling debris and killed. The house was also set aflame due to some of the lit candles falling down, and it eventually sank underground, taking Carrie and Margaret with it. In the end, when Sue is dreaming, she dreams that Carrie's arm comes out of the ground and is scarred from her dream.

Carrie 2: The Rage

Carrie appears in this movie, too, but in flashbacks through Sue Snell´s memories about what happened regarding the events, which later lead to the Black Prom. We also recognize that Chamberlaine has changed because of Carrie White´s actions. The original high school is in ruins and has not been rebuilt. It has become a sort of memorial of that night, that is haunting the inhabitants one way or another since then. The new Bates High school is now instead in another part of the town and there Rachel Lang, Carrie´s half sister, who is also a telekinetic, is a student of it. There the events of the sequel happen, which later will lead to the Black Party.

2002 Film

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Carrie in the 2002 film prom before the prank

Actress Angela Bettis played Carrie in the 2002 remake of the original 1976 film. The younger Carrie was played by Jodelle Ferland. This version of the character was more similar to the novel than Sissy Spacek's portrayal. Throughout much of the movie, there were segments where different characters gave their accounts of the Ewen High prom night incident. Also, the "downtown destruction" segment as portrayed in the novel (which was cut from the classic movie because of budget constraints) occurred here, but it is also shown, that Carrie

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Carrie White in the 2002 made-for-TV remake Carrie.

was not consciously aware of what she was doing, because the evil prank and the subsequent laughter had put her in a temporary, comatose state of mind, which led to the subconscious activation of her rampage.

In the aftermath of this version, Carrie did not die, but survived her post-prom ordeal and escaped with Sue to flee to Florida instead. Carrie went on to help others with their telekinesis in a hidden manner, eventually setting the stage for a potential TV series. However, that series was never produced.

2013 film

In the 2013 film, Carrie White was portrayed by Chloë Grace Moretz.

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Carrie prior to the prank (2013 version).

Carrie in this version is more similar to the book, but in modern terms. At the beginning of the film, Carrie has her first period in the showers and is harassed by Chris and her gang. Chris also films Carrie with her phone, while the other girls throw tampons and sanitary napkins at Carrie. Ms. Desjardin tries to calm Carrie down, and a light fixture breaks by itself. Carrie is picked up by her mother Margaret and at home dragged into the closet to pray. She screams at her mother and the closet door cracks. Both are shocked. Carrie then falls asleep in the closet shortly afterward. Carrie's mother lets her out and asks Carrie if she finished praying. Carrie says yes and her mother kisses her on the forehead, telling her she loves her. At school, Carrie suspects that she has telekinesis. She then begins to study everything she can about her power. While practicing at home, the lights flicker and her mother comes up with a knife to check if she is all right. She lies down on the bed with her. Carrie makes the knife fly off the desk onto the ground, without her mother noticing. Carrie is asked to the prom by Tommy, but thinks it is a trick and is confronted again while walking home. This time she accepts. Now she tries to tell her mother, but she is disinterested and attempts to walk away after telling her no. Carrie reveals her power to her mother by lifting up all the furniture and her mother off the floor. She demands that she is going and wants to be normal. Carrie sews her own dress and buys makeup, and on prom night, her mother tries to convince her that it is a trick and threatens to tell Tommy the truth. Carrie telekinetically pushes her mother into the closet and locks the door.

Carrie White After The Prank

She leaves with Tommy and arrives at the prom. There she meets Tommy's friend George and his girlfriend Erika. Carrie is uneasy around them at first but laughs with Erika at their dates goofing off. Carrie laughs when Erika says if they kill each other, she'll just dance with Carrie. When the four sit at their table, Carrie is surprised to see her and Tommy's names on the ballot. When Tommy asks her if they want to vote for themselves, Carrie is unimpressed. George and Erika leave the two to dance and while Tommy wants to follow them, Carrie is scared to be in the center of attention. Tommy tells her, he wants at least one dance with her. Carrie gives in and dances with him. She feels amazing, as if her whole life has led to this moment. Later she and Tommy win the election and Carrie is handed flowers while George and Erika cheer them on. While on stage, Chris drenches Carrie in pig's blood. Carrie is shocked and stares at Tommy in disbelief. Tommy then exclaims "WHAT THE HELL?!" furiously. Carrie begins walking away ignoring Tommy's attempts to get her back on stage. Carrie uses her powers to push Ms. Desjardin away, shocking and scaring George and Erika. The bucket then knocks Tommy unconscious and everyone laughs at Carrie. Carrie remembers her mother's words and begins running for the door. However after seeing Tommy fall unconscious, Carrie runs back to him and tries to wake him up. However he doesn't and Carrie along with George, Erika, and Ms. Desjardin is sadden by this believing him to be dead. However after Chris's video of her having her period appears on screen Carrie realizes she has had enough. She unleashes her power on everyone by locking the doors and causing objects to fly around the room, killing several people. Sue witnesses this from outside. A fire starts and the school burns. In a deleted scene, after Carrie burns Tina, she sees George and Erika staring at her in fear. Carrie stares back at them and after a while Carrie uses her ability to open an air vent and stops several students from going first. George and Erika run to the vent and Erika nods to Carrie before entering the vent.  After this Ms. Desjardin and several students manage to escape in the air vent. Many perish in the fire, and Carrie leaves, and begins to destroy the town, leaving a massive trail of destruction and flames while she walks home. Eventually she comes across Chris and Billy who attempt to kill her by running her over, but she uses her power to stop the car and in the process kills Billy and traps Chris in the car, then sends the car flying into the gas station. It blows up, no doubt killing Chris. Carrie returns home where she finds that her mother has escaped the closet and has gotten hold of a kitchen knife. Carrie strips of her bloody clothes and takes a bath washing off the blood. She changes into her pajamas and meets her mother in the upstairs hall. Her mother tells her of the night she was raped and therefore concevied her. Margaret stabs Carrie in the back but they fly in opposite directions. Carrie then falls down the stairs and brutally hits the wall leaving a blood stain. Her mother manages to slash her arm in the process. Carrie kills her mother by impaling her with the household objects. After cradling her mother to death, she realizes what she has done, and makes stones begin to rain from the sky. Sue appears shortly afterwards but is held in the grasp of Carrie. After scanning Sue's brain, she realizes that Sue had nothing to do with the prank. She tells Sue, who didn´t know, that she is pregnant with a girl, before throwing her out.

At the end after Sue's words, Carrie's headstone cracks before exploding, you hear her screams. This indicates, that Carrie is still alive.

Appearances

• Carrie
• Carrie (1976 film)
• Carrie: The Musical
• The Dead Zone (novel, mentioned)
• IT (novel, mentioned)
• The Rage: Carrie 2 (archive footage)
• Carrie (2002 film)
• Carrie (2013 film)

Trivia

• She also shares similarities to Alessa Gillespie from the Silent Hill videogame series, as Carrie and Alessa both possessed psychokinetic powers, have been tormented at their schools by their cruel classmates, and both have psychotically religious mothers. 
• She shares a similarity to It and a doctor, who is the villain in The Pied Piper. They are all telekinetic.
• She shares a similarity to the dog Max in the horror film Man's Best Friend. They both have been tormented and always get revenge.
• She also shares this similarity to Matilda Wormwood from the Roald Dahl book Matilda, as they both use their powers to get back at those who tormented them.
• She is not killed in the second adaptation and it is hinted, that she lives in the 2013 adaptation as well.
• She is also somewhat similar to Lucy from Elfen Lied, as they both are tormented by students and angrily murdered them as they laughed, using forms of telekinesis.
• She also shares a similarity to Aggie Prenderghast, both being treated as outcast, both having telekinesis and both used their powers to those who offended them.
• She also shares this similarity to Willow Rosenberg (Alyson Hannigan) from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a girl judged unsightly and humiliated daily by Cordelia Chase, the queen bee of her campus like Chris Hargensen. Willow also obtains a telekinetic power by becoming a witch. Her friendship with Buffy is possibly comparable to the relation between Carrie and Sue Snell as far as these last tries to restore her self-confidence in her and is in a way her guardian angel. However, Willow is neglected and not abused by her parents. Another difference, she was considered like the most studious among the campus contrary to Carrie who is ignored on all spheres. Later, Willow becomes a lesbian. When her girlfriend is murdered, Willow becomes a temporary dark version of herself, vengeful and empowered, similar to Carrie when humiliated in the prom. Interestingly, Willow has a veinous face like Rachel Lang in the sequel. Others females characters on the show are also inspired by Carrie. The relationship between Amy Madison (Elisabeth Ann Allen) and her mother (Robin Riker) is similar to Carrie and her mother from the 1976 film because the father left the family home. The mother becomes psychotic, obsessed by her youthful age and often humiliating her daughter. Another enemy, Drusilla (Juliet Landau) is depicted in her former human life as a pious, shy and virginal girl like Carrie, haunted by her medium power and considered herself like the devil's gift. Becoming schizophrenic and vampirized, she has a comportment similar to Margaret White. Another medium, Cassie Newton (Azura Sky) is depressed by her own power and has cut all relationships.
• In the 2013 film adaption Carrie was born in 1995 and died in 2013, meaning the film is set in 2013.
• In the 2013 film adaption, when Carrie tells Sue, that her baby is a girl and saves her life, it´s possible, that Carrie now treats Sue as a friend.

Powers and Abilities

• Telekinesis-Carrie's most known ability and trait, she can move multiple objects at once by focusing her mind on an object or channel her telekinesis through her hands, while studying the books about telekinesis and miracles she concentrated on a book that was positioned on a table on the other side of her room and while she focused on it lights started to flicker and the floor started shaking, eventually she was controlling all of the books as well as levitating her bed. While heading out the door to prom, Carrie forced Margaret to freeze and telekinetically forced her mouth shut as she pushed her into the Prayer Closet and then slammed and locked the door. During her attack on the student body after her humiliation she showed that she was able to levitate and toss flaming objects, like when she ignited the stage and tossed a flaming moon decoration across the room at a table which then burst into flames. She can also manipulate electric appliances like when she animated electrical cords to attack Tina which zapped her and caught her in the fire which was set on a table. She was also able to telekinetically levitate herself as shown after she finished her attack while she flew off the stage.
• Telepathy-Although this power is not entirely shore of, Carrie supposedly connected with Sue telepathically and told her that she would soon have a baby girl, shortly before gently forcing her out of her home.
• Limited Pyrokinesis- Carrie could also telekinetically ignite objects or levitate and throw flaming objects as shown when she tossed a flaming moon decoration into the panicking crowd during her attack, she also showed this while she was walking home as she started igniting objects that were in her path.
• Geokinesis- Carrie also showed the ability to create earthquakes when she was pursuing Chris Hargensen and Billy Nolan causing a fissure to follow them, later while mourning her mother after her death, Carrie summoned a shower of rocks to rain down on and destroy her house.

Gallery

Sissy Spacek as Carrie in the 1976 film

Carre and Tommy at the Prom before the prank

Carrie in the 1976 film after the prank

Carrie leaves everyone to die in the gym as it explodes

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Angela Bettis as Carrie in the 2002 film

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Carrie and Tommy crowned at the Prom

Carrie, the victim of the prank

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Carrie after the prank

The Scene Where Carrie Get's Dumped With The Blood(Click To See Animation)

Carrie White in the 2013 film adaption

Chloe Moretz as Carrie in the 2013 film

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Carrie in the 2013 film after the prank