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Billy Nolan
Chris, one of Carrie’s classmates, is Carrie’s most tenacious bully. She is the girlfriend of Billy Nolan, a delinquent who is often cruel to her. Although Chris, too, is a problem student at Ewen High School, her father—a wealthy lawyer—regularly intervenes to get her out of trouble. Chris is the main instigator in the locker room incident, and she becomes irate when Sue expresses remorse for the girls’ cruel bullying of Carrie. When Sue gets Tommy to ask Carrie to prom as an apology, Chris is determined to retaliate, and she enlists Billy to come up with an idea. When she discovers that her and Billy’s actions have led to a catastrophe in Chamberlain, she’s horrified, but mostly because she’s worried about Billy getting in trouble. She is killed alongside Billy when Carrie takes telekinetic control of Billy’s car, crashing the car into The Cavalier as the couple tries to drive away.
Christine “Chris” Hargensen Quotes in Carrie
The Carrie quotes below are all either spoken by Christine “Chris” Hargensen or refer to Christine “Chris” Hargensen. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Part 1: Pages 1-25
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A tampon suddenly struck her in the chest and fell with a plop at her feet. A red flower stained the absorbent cotton and spread.
Then the laughter, disgusted, contemptuous, horrified, seemed to rise and bloom into something jagged and ugly, and the girls were bombarding her with tampons and sanitary napkins, some from purses, some from the broken dispenser on the wall. They flew like snow and the chant became: “Plug it up, plug it up, plug it up, plug it—”
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Part 1: Pages 50-91
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Looking at Chris was like looking through a slanted doorway to a place where Carrie White crouched with hands over her head.
Part 2: Pages 141-170
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Billy’s car was old, dark, somehow sinister. The windshield was milky around the edges, as if a cataract was beginning to form. The seats were loose and unanchored. Beer bottles clicked and rolled in the back (her fraternity dates drank Budweiser; Billy and his friends drank Rheingold), and she had to place her feet around a huge, grease-clotted Craftsman toolkit without a lid. The tools inside were of many different makes, and she suspected that many of them were stolen. The car smelled of oil and gas. The sound of straight pipes came loudly and exhilaratingly through the thin floorboards. A row of dials slung under the dash registered amps, oil pressure, and tach (whatever that was). The back wheels were jacked and the hood seemed to point at the road.
Part 2: Pages 238-277
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He called her Charlie whenever he was pleased with her. It seemed to be, she thought with a cold blink of humor, a generic term for a good cunt.
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Christine “Chris” Hargensen Quotes in Carrie
The Carrie quotes below are all either spoken by Christine “Chris” Hargensen or refer to Christine “Chris” Hargensen. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Part 1: Pages 1-25
Quotes
A tampon suddenly struck her in the chest and fell with a plop at her feet. A red flower stained the absorbent cotton and spread.
Then the laughter, disgusted, contemptuous, horrified, seemed to rise and bloom into something jagged and ugly, and the girls were bombarding her with tampons and sanitary napkins, some from purses, some from the broken dispenser on the wall. They flew like snow and the chant became: “Plug it up, plug it up, plug it up, plug it—”
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Part 1: Pages 50-91
Quotes
Looking at Chris was like looking through a slanted doorway to a place where Carrie White crouched with hands over her head.
Part 2: Pages 141-170
Quotes
Billy’s car was old, dark, somehow sinister. The windshield was milky around the edges, as if a cataract was beginning to form. The seats were loose and unanchored. Beer bottles clicked and rolled in the back (her fraternity dates drank Budweiser; Billy and his friends drank Rheingold), and she had to place her feet around a huge, grease-clotted Craftsman toolkit without a lid. The tools inside were of many different makes, and she suspected that many of them were stolen. The car smelled of oil and gas. The sound of straight pipes came loudly and exhilaratingly through the thin floorboards. A row of dials slung under the dash registered amps, oil pressure, and tach (whatever that was). The back wheels were jacked and the hood seemed to point at the road.
Part 2: Pages 238-277
Quotes
He called her Charlie whenever he was pleased with her. It seemed to be, she thought with a cold blink of humor, a generic term for a good cunt.
