This version of Margaret is portrayed by Piper Laurie in the 1976 film. Chris had Billy viciously slaughter two pigs at a local farm and drain their blood into two big metal buckets. She looks at Carrie, when she is cutting, sewing and making her prom dress, but quickly looks away when Carrie glances back at her. Margaret then makes a crazy and wicked smile, as she follows Carrie down the stairs, ready to kill her, as though she on some sort of mission. Carrie begins walking away, ignoring Tommy's attempts to get her back on stage. While Carrie is at prom Margaret slams her arm out of the crack. Sissy Spacek was crowned Homecoming Queen in her teenage years. One of the best parts of the novel Carrie is Carrie's dramatic inner conflict about whether or not she should go to prom. Seconds after, Sue got up to fetch for help, but could feel herself miscarrying, though she initially thought that she was apparently having her period. After Popo died, An-mei's mother prepared to leave. In the first section of the story, Carrie had a greasy face with blackheads and wore stockings that were always running or about to run and she was always showing sweat stains under the arms of her blouses. For some reason, both viewed any form of sex, even marital intercourse, as sinful. So in return, Carrie used her powers to slow her mother's heart down, painfully and very slowly, until eventually stopping it completely and killing her by giving her a heart attack. "She literally spent her life caring after Carrie," Todd Fisher (Carrie's brother) told Good Morning America. It was usually triggered by her own inner frustration and private misery and would flare whenever she lost her temper. With her telekinesis, she made the front door swing wide open and she destroyed all the items in the house as she entered the doorway. Margaret reacted by throwing tea on Carrie's face, and tried to force her into prayers in the closet once again, because boys always came after "the blood". by Carolyn Steber. At home, Carrie's life was just as awful. Carrie could see with her telepathic powers where the real Miss Desjardin was and how she was still laughing like everyone else. Especially on the day she came home after the shower incident, with the implication that this was one out of many instances, Carrie was forced into the closet. Every time she uses a fake "ghetto" accent, somebody gets Lyme disease. Carrie is also the granddaughter of John and Judith Brigham, the step-granddaughter of Harold Allison and the great-granddaughter of Sadie Cochran. The welcome turned out to be temporary anyhow. Sue, who had been following the trail of destruction caused by Carrie in hopes of tracking her down to stop her rampage, finally arrived a short time later only to find Carrie nearly dead on the ground in the burning lot. Carrie explained that she was actually born gifted with telekinesis. This caused more explosions that destroyed and demolished the town shops and local businesses. She faced the two who she needed to finally kill most of all before the night was over, before she was completely finished with her rampage of revenge. However, unlike Margaret White, she expresses a fascination with her daughter's natural abilitiesand predicts that her daughter will become a "real world beater someday". Also, the "downtown destruction" segment, as portrayed in the novel, which was left out from the 1976 movie because of budget constraints occurred here. Margaret then gasps air-less, while Carrie frees her from this position and later dies in Carrie's arms. Getty Images/LaylaBird/E+/Getty Images. Tragically, when a so-called "prank" at her Senior Prom involving, pigs blood pushed her to her breaking point and beyond her limits, Carrie finally snapped, lost her sanity and used the wild talents she possessed to seek her hostile revenge to make her bullies and enemies pay and suffer for their cruel actions. Once the classmates found a love letter from Carrie to a boy named, One year, Carrie was given the cruel nickname "pudding pop" by everyone and the next year she became known by the cruel nickname "pizza face" by everyone. All the while, Carrie was repeatedly teased and bullied by her classmates at every school she ever attended. After following Carrie downstairs and trying to tempt her not to go, Carrie grabs her mother with her TK. She took out her knife and told Carrie that she tried to kill her twice before during the first few years of her life, but didn't because she was "weak". She desperately wants to please her abusive, Bible-thumping mother, but even more badly, she just wants a normal life. She then proceeded to slap Carrie across the face and ordered her to go in the closet and pray, but Carrie refused. She wanted a new beginning and saw the Senior Prom as a part of that change. 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, then sends the car flying into the gas station, killing Chris in the process. This Margaret was much calmer than the original, but is still very abusive towards Carrie. Her husband, Ralph White, died before their daughter Carrie was born. This time she accepts. She, along with Chris Hargensen and Billy Nolan, serves as the main antagonist. Female In 1960, she met the equally religious Ralph White. Gender But Carries hurt pretty badly herself. But instead of a baby, a blood-covered arm comes out (Carrie's?). Piper Laurie (1976 movie)Patricia Clarkson (2002 TV movie)Julianne Moore (2013 movie). Sue wakes up screaming revealing that the arm was her mother's. She also shares similarities to Dahlia Gillespie from the. In preparation for her role, Sissy Spacek isolated herself from the rest of the ensemble, decorated her dressing room with heavy religious iconography and studied Gustave Dor's illustrated Bible. Patricia Clarkson as Carrie's mother Margaret White in Carrie (2002 remake). Patricia Clarkson portrayed Margaret White in the 2002 film remake. This Margaret is much calmer, but she also tries to kill Carrie for the same reasons, too. In this version, however, she doesn't try to kill Carrie with a knife. With Margaret dead, Carrie then left her home as the whole neighborhood street was on fire, consuming all the houses on the block one after the other. Instead, she tries to drown Carrie in the bathtub of her home after Carrie returns from the prom ordeal, forcing Carrie to use her telekinesis to cause Margaret's heart to stop to save her life, where Sue later finds her with Carrie in the bathtub on the brink of death. Margaret calls her a witch, but relents. She also kills for being humiliated, while the laughing crowd is a result of her inner fear in, Carrie actually leaves the gym and remembers her "gift" outside, returning and locking her bullies in. 16 When Carrie accuses Sue of trying to trick her and forces Sue to experience the depth of Carries pain and misery, Sue offers her mind up to be read: (look carrie look Now there are instanceswhere Carrie's special abilities manifested all by itself without her even trying. Carrie then told Margaret about Tommy and the Prom, and remarked that he was a good boy. Carrie revealed she was asked to the prom by Tommy, and her suspicions that "they" were planning to humiliate her once again. The bucket thenkills Tommy and everyone laughs at Carrie. Margaret liked and loathed the event. Kari's nine-year-old daughter was in the room and tried calling 911 on the hotel phone. She strips off her bloody clothes and takes a bath, washing off the blood. Before Carrie could make it to the exit, she was deliberately tripped by someone in the crowd and fell, causing the laughter to grow even louder. 1979 An autopsy is performed on Carrie's body. (Compare these latter 2 examples to the 1976 version, where Margaret coldly says "go to bed.") She was picked up by her mother at the station and sent to the closet to pray for hours. But before Carrie died, Sue invited Carrie into her mind to see that she had no part in planning the nasty joke that occurred earlier that evening, and just paired her up with Tommy as amends for locker room incident. If there's one thing this woman is And sure enough, the wildfire eventually reached the Whites' bungalow and nearly burned it completely down as well. Margaret was shown to be very religious and very creepy. This woman died because her master beat her child out of her. Also in the novel, Carrie is sometimes locked in the closet by her mother for days on end without food, water or even bathroom breaks. Margaret was very evil and abusive to her daughter, Carrie. Portrayed by This is an adaptation of Stephen King's novel. While Moore's Margaret is just as abusive towards Carrie, she also displays genuine love towards her. Margaret then tormented, slapped, pushed, pulled and threw Carrie into the closet and Carrie became vulgar with her mother. It is true that full-blown narcissists are unlikely to change, but the adult child can do his or her own internal work for recovery. When Prom Night arrived, Margaret and Carrie got into another argument about the Prom. This made Carrie laugh again and she used her mind to break the backstage high-voltage power cables by picturing them in her head and threw them crackling on the wet stage, causing purple sparks to fly into the air. She is the mother of Carrie White and a Christian fanatic. 2 boys caught for skipping French 1, got a weeks detention for staring at the blood. Margaret was very evil and abusive to her daughter, Carrie. They also learned from this telepathythat it was Carrie White causing the destruction, regardless of if they knew or not who Carrie even was. The hotel phone required guests to dial a With the water from the firehose, Carrie knocked Norma down and electrified Mr. Fromm and the principal. He lived with his mother and sisters, and his father wasnt present instead, his mother, Deborah (Sheri Moon Zombie), had a boyfriend named Ronnie White (William Forsythe), who was abusive. Carrie returned the attack by using her powers to slow her mother's heart to a crawl. As Carrie walked home, destroying the town of Chamberlain in her path, Margaret met her tragic end when Carrie used her hidden telekinetic powers to kill her mother. Rocks start falling through the house, Carrie looks up and then back at Sue. Margaret and Carrie did not see each other again until much later in the evening, when Carrie returned home, dripping with pigs blood from head to toe, Margaret had finally lost her sanity and managed to hide the knife under her dress. People all over the world are also scared that another telekinetic child could be born. Later that night, Tommy picked up Carrie for the Prom as he promised, while Margaret stayed by herself and prayed silently in another room. She then made plans to move to Florida and start her life with the help of Sue Snell who felt sorry for her. After Carrie took a shower, she was taken by Miss Collins to the principal's office and the incident spread around, some kids mocking her as she waited to be called in. While this happens, she always shows this smile. After Margaret talks more to Carrie, she pulls out a knife smiling and stabs Carrie hardly on her shoulder wounding her severely. She is also one of the few Stephen King protagonists to die. Finished, Carrie thanked her mother and went upstairs. Biographical information Margaret had a serious mental problem that made her devote her life to being a Christian who believed everything was sinful, even sexual intercourse, including within marriage. She then says, she thought that Carrie was a cancer when she was being born, Carrie reacts in pain and says it's awful acting a little aggressive on Margaret on the way. In a cold rage, Carrie's mind finally snapped and she returned to the school barefooted and with a sadistic vengeance and a thirst for bloody revenge. 8. Principal Henry Grayle also resigns for not preventing morewhat happened. 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