About Carrie, the book

[lomawood]

Hi! I'm reading Carrie again, and I found something really weird.

"[...] Carrie had not even been a year old. Margaret had gone into her bedroom not four weeks after Gram's funeral and there her girl-child had lain in her crib, laughing and gurgling, watching a bottle that was dangling in thin air over her head.
Margaret had almost killed her then. Ralph had stopped her.
She should not have let him stop her."

Wasn't he dead?????

[Nabila]

I just finished reading it too for the first time. My husband just found the book 4 days ago.

You're right Ralph was dead. I didn't catch that though. The only answer I can think of is maybe Margaret was hallucinating. She seems to always be in a perpetual state of religious frenzy even when she's calm. Anything can set her off. Just my thoughts.

But of course the best person to answer this is the author himself.

[lomawood]

Yeah... I thought something like that too.

[michal]

Had to admit I never noticed that one before. Funny, ain't it?

[lomawood]

I only noticed the second time I read.

[virgin10]

I have read this as my first stephenking book and found it a really good story, i have never been interested in reading these before but have always enjoyed the films ive seen of his. This book confused me slightly so i will re-read it again a bit later on, i am now going to give some of his other books a go.

Back to carrie, as a person who spent most of her school life being bullied i can totally understand her feelings, i would have loved to have taught my bullies a lesson if i had the powers she had but i wouldn't have gone as far as doing what she did. As a christian i have to believe in forgiveness which sometimes can be hard but has to be done. When i look back on my experiences and the way carrie is i was very similar to her, never had the latest clothes, never had an appropriate hair style, went home everynight after school, rarely joined in any out of school activities and never was invited to a school disco (no proms back then in the UK).

Overall this book was fab as my first read and am looking forward to my next book.
Love
Virgin10!!!!!!!

[GNTLGNT]

I'm not sure Mrs. White ever had a lucid moment. I think her whole life was one long psychotic break...but then again, King was just in his "infancy" and plot points could be skewed-Hell's Bells, he still leaves a "hole" even now. Dang it, he IS human...

[feeblepizza]

I agree with Nabila