Talk:Carrie (novel)/GA1

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Reviewer: Nineteen Ninety-Four guy (talk · contribs) 07:28, 23 December 2022 (UTC)

Let's see...

Lede

• Feeling guilt toward harassing Carrie, Sue Snell invites Carrie to the prom with Tommy Ross, but a humiliating prank during the prom by Christ Hargensen leads to Carrie destroying the town with her powers. -> Remorseful for picking on Carrie, Sue Snell insists that she go to prom with Sue's boyfriend Tommy Ross, though a revenge prank pulled by one of Carrie's bullies, Chris Hargensen, leaves Carrie humiliated and uses her powers to destroy the town on prom night.
• The narrative contains fictional documents in approximately chronological order that present multiple perspectives on the prom incident and its perpetrator. Carrie deals with themes of ostracization and revenge, with the opening shower scene and the destruction of Chamberlain being pivotal scenes. -> An epistolary novel, Carrie deals with themes of ostracization and revenge, with the opening shower scene and the destruction of Chamberlain being pivotal scenes.
• King started writing Carrie, intended to be a short story for the men's magazine Cavalier, after a friend's suggestion about writing a story of a female character. -> King wrote Carrie at the suggestion of a friend that he write a story about a female character, with the intention of submitting it to be published originally as a short story for the men's magazine Cavalier.
• Being a debut novel, Carrie launched King's career and helped achieve him mainstream success. => Carrie, King's debut novel, helped launch his career and achieve him mainstream success.
• Carrie received generally positive reviews The book
• It has also been credit for -> with
• Four film adaptations have been released, with one getting a sequel, and a musical adaptation was released in 1988. -> The book has been adapted into four films—with one getting a sequel—as well as a musical.

Plot

• Don't precede "instilled by her despotic mother" with a comma
• The sight of Carrie drenched in blood invokes laughter from the audience. evokes
• a few lucky staff and students escape - "a few staff and students narrowly escape"
• that the carnage was caused by her - I think "mayhem" is the appropriate word
• "killing both Billy and Chris" -> him

Styles and themes

• Carrie is a horror novel and is an example of supernatural and gothic fiction. as well as
• This results in Carrie committing a massacre among the school and Chamberlain of
• Carrie also deals with themes of vengeance. -> Preference to Another theme found in the novel is vengeance. to vary sentence structure

Legacy

• While review aggregation websites Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic are reliable sources, they cannot be cited as sources to support overall critical consensus to a film. Review aggregators are not arbiters of critical consensus; sections about critical reception should benefit from other reliable sources, such as books and periodicals reporting in retrospect how a film was received by critics.

Conclusion

In light of these concerns, mostly at the prose level, I feel like this article needs more work before it can pass GA. I've only gone through the first three sections and already noticed some sentences to be a little too unwieldy that I couldn't help but suggest revisions. Please put in a request for a copy edit at the Guild of Copy Editors before you renominate. Make no mistake, the article is GA worthy; it's just not quite there yet. Good luck, and happy holidays. Nineteen Ninety-Four guy (talk) 16:42, 23 December 2022 (UTC)