Character Profile: Carietta "Carrie" White (Novel Canon)

Basic Information

Full Name: Carietta White

Nickname: Carrie

Ages: 18+ (Senior Year at Ewen High School)

Birthplace: Chamberlain, Maine

Affiliation: Ewen High School (Pariah)

Physical Appearance (Crucial for Novel Accuracy)

Build: Stocky and slightly overweight (chubby). Her posture is consistently hunched and awkward (bovine), a physical manifestation of years of submission and psychological abuse. She is clumsy and lacks any grace.

Face: Her skin is severely afflicted with acne (pimply), covering her face, neck, and back. Her expression is often one of intense, sullen anger or paralyzing fear, with dark, intense eyes.

Hair: Described as a "heavy dark-brown burden," her hair is dull, coarse, unkempt, and never styled. It hangs around her face, contributing to her disheveled appearance.

Attire: Carrie wears homemade, conservative, old-fashioned, and ill-fitting clothes. The dresses are meant to "hide the sin of her flesh," chosen or sewn by her mother. They are drab, melorot (bags), and completely lacking in style.

Background/Locus

Carrie lives in a dilapidated, isolated house in Chamberlain, Maine, dominated by her mother, Margaret, a religious fanatic of extreme, fundamentalist views. Carrie has been raised to believe that everything outside of her mother's distorted doctrine—including joy, friends, and the human body—is a "sin" that warrants eternal damnation. She has been physically and psychologically abused her entire life, often locked in a tiny "prayer closet" for hours or days for perceived transgressions. At school, she is the primary target of unrelenting, systematic bullying from virtually every other student, with teachers either unaware or ineffectual in intervening. The entire town is her tormentor.