Symbolism, Imagery, Allegory
Setting
Spoiler alert: Stephen King is from Maine. Shocker, we know; most of his books are set in Maine. But how does Mr. King really feel about the place, we wonder?Since he's always writing about it, we...
Narrator Point of View
Carrie's story is semi-epistolary, told just as much from a third-person limited point of view as it is from scraps of books, interviews, newspaper articles, and letters. The narrative voice jumps...
Genre
Chances are the copy of Carrie you have features a girl covered in blood. Um, yikes. That's not something you see on family-friendly material, like your Wheaties box. (If you're eating cereal that...
What's Up With the Title?
In case you totally zoned out during the entire book (or were too busy floating hairbrushes with your mind), the main character's name is Carrie. This is also the title of the book. You might say t...
What's Up With the Ending?
We know, we know: we're sick of it too. But Stephen King does the whole "setting us up for a sequel" thing with the ending of Carrie. Ugh. Why didn't he realize that he would only write one sequel...
Tough-o-Meter
Carrie is mostly a book about teenagers, so it's written in prose appropriate for teenager readers. The main text is easy to understand, and even the snippets of scholarly texts and newspapers that...