Stephen King’s “Carrie” is a supernatural horror novel that delves deep into the darkest corners of the human psyche. The novel is about Carrie, a girl with telekinetic powers - latent at first but intensifies as the novel progresses with each of her traumatic experience.
Carrie, a high school student is often bullied by her classmates and suffers distressing experiences at school. Her mother being a religious fanatic, Carrie grows up in her oppressive influence as a naive and emotionally deranged kid.
The narrative of the novel is presented as a combination of prose, excerpts from police investigation, news snippets, magazine articles, interviews and a personal diary of one of the characters Sue. The idea of narration from the perspective of different characters adds necessary depth to the proceedings. However, there are pacing issues and sometimes the narration from Sue’s diary feels like a monologue.
Carrie’s characterisation as an emotionally disturbed kid due to the conservative upbringing in the hands of a religious fanatic mother and her spiralling descent into madness caused by events of extreme psychological trauma is well written. The other characters in the novel create a diverse environment and get proper closure at the end of the novel.
A slow paced, yet well-written supernatural horror novel.
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