Carrie White
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Sissy Spacek as Carrie White in the 1976 film adaptation.
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| First appearance | Carrie |
| Last appearance | Carrie (2013 film) |
| Created by | Stephen King |
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| Nickname(s) | "Fart face" by the 5 years-old boy Tommy Erbter |
| Gender | Female |
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| Religion | Fundamentalist Christianity |
Carrietta N. "Carrie" White is the title character and protagonist of Stephen King's novel Carrie.
In every adaptation and portrayal of Carrie, she is portrayed as a high school outcast, loathed, taunted, scorned, insulted, confronted and verbally and physically abused by students and her mother Margaret White, an abusive, mentally ill and unstable religious fanatic. At the age of seventeen, she has her first menstrual period in the showers at school, awakening her dormant telekinetic and telepathic abilities. After being humiliated in front of the entire school during the prom, in a cruel prank involving pig's blood, an enraged Carrie uses her powers to massacre her classmates and the entire town of Chamberlain, Maine.
Carrie White is blonde-haired with brown eyes, full-figured, has acne, and is considered unattractive, though she is described as having been very pretty as a little girl. Carrie is shy, lonely and isolated; the closest thing she has to a friend at school is fellow student Sue Snell, who pities more than likes her. Her mother Margaret, a religious fanatic, throws her into a "prayer closet" whenever she misbehaves.
All her life, Carrie has had incredibly strong telekinetic abilities, usually evident in childhood incidents. As a baby, she had closed a window and had dangled her own bottle above her crib. When she was three years old, she witnessed her teenage next door neighbor sunbathing and asked about her breasts. Her mother hit Carrie for asking about such a matter. While she was inside, Carrie brought forth a hail of ice that smashed the bungalow. The chunks of ice were followed by a shower of rocks that plummeted onto the property, damaging it heavily while a table was almost sent toppling through the window.
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