Pros: Great characterization and truth about adolescent behavior
Cons: Plot is predictable
The Bottom Line: Read the book. It is well worth your time, and you may learn a little about the roots of King's horror-humorist prose and vivid characters.
I am a 'tried and true' King fan -- I love his novels and shorter fiction (Okay, Tom Gordon is a stretch). Carrie is defiantly a successful attempt by King to create characters that continually haunt the reader. Margaret White, for example, is a truly psychopathic, terrifying character who literally ruins our heroine, Carrie. We believe the insane, abusive zealotry found in Mrs. White; she continually haunts our imagination, with large upper arms and Daddy's bible in hand. Additionally, Carrie is drawn as a character teens and adults find appealing; we empathize with her view of society and its inherent cruelty. Carrie, furthermore, is an unleashed but polluted beauty or a Blakeian 'Sick Rose.' Although King is successful in his creation of character, it is the linear and occasionally predictable plot that detracts from the perfection of the story. The progression from Carrie's womanhood and maturing of her TK power to her all out frustration with momma and the tantalizing teenagers works well, but King's plot/subplot development is not at its peak. Instead, King seems to apply a more creative narrative structure -- a structure of clippings, testimonies, and journals that clearly works well. Carrie is an example of King's earliest success that shows his expertise in riveting character development.
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