Carietta N. White is the title character and protagonist of American author Stephen King's first published 1974 horror novel, Carrie.

The school gym teacher Rita Desjardin – who pities rather than likes Carrie – punishes the girls who were involved with a week of detention, and bans Chris from the prom when she refuses to comply.

As an elated Carrie accepts her crown, Chris and Billy dump a bucket of pig's blood over her head, provoking the entire school, even Desjardin, to start laughing at her.

Humiliated and enraged, Carrie loses control of her powers and lets loose a torrent of telekinetic energy that demolishes the school and kills several students.

Her songs include "And Eve Was Weak", "Evening Prayers", and "I Remember How Those Boys Could Dance" (duets with Betty Buckley, who also played teacher Miss Collins in the 1976 film, as her mother) and the solos "I'm Not Alone" and "Carrie".

Carrie seals off the exits, kills everyone present (staged through pyrotechnics and lasers), and brings down the ceiling, burying the promgoers.

The students writhe in desperation as Carrie sets the gym on fire, and telekinetically forces Chris Hargensen to break her own neck.

However, the musical's director Kevin Keller (portrayed by Casey Cott) had offered the role to Midge, until she was killed by the Black Hood at the end of the episode.

The music video for "Hell in the Hallways" by the American metal band Ice Nine Kills is based on the story with Isabel McGinity as Carrie.

[6][7] The music videos for Chicago band Common Shiner's "Social Mediasochist" and "On and On" also parody the story with Whitney Jones as Carrie.

The music video for "Fantasy", by the British singer Jade Thirlwall, released in 2024, features a sequence based on the prom scene.

The 2011 film Gingerdead Man 3: Saturday Night Cleaver features the telekinetic character Cherry, which parodies Carrie.