When Sue investigates the inside of the stage, she catches Chris briefly, but is forced out of the auditorium by Miss Collins ( Betty Buckley) (who erroneously believes her to be interrupting the ceremony out of jealousy and does not listen to her protestations), seconds before the cord is pulled and Carrie is splattered with the blood. Sue then notices the cord running along the stage, leading up to the bucket of pig blood above Carrie. She instead heads over to the school and sneaks into the prom to check on them, and is happy to see Carrie smiling and being elected prom queen. Unlike the novel, Sue doesn’t seem to feel worried over the possibilities of Tommy falling in love with Carrie. Sue helps lead Carrie's locker room humiliation she even opens a counter where pads and tampons are stored and starts the chant of "Plug it up! Plug it up!" However, feeling guilty about it, she eventually asks her boyfriend, Tommy Ross ( William Katt), to take Carrie to the prom. In the original film adaptation by Brian De Palma, Sue is portrayed by Amy Irving. In 1986, she publishes a book, My Name Is Susan Snell, which details the events of the prom from her perspective, reminding readers that "we were kids" and apt to make faulty choices even while trying to do right.Īmy Irving played Snell in the 1976 adaptation and its 1999 sequel The Rage: Carrie 2. Sue accuses the commission of wanting a scapegoat, admitting that she only wanted to help Carrie have a normal life and that schools should do more to prevent bullying. Sue is soon targeted by a blue-ribbon panel investigating the "Black Prom" as a partial instigator of the setup to humiliate Carrie at the prom. As Sue flees the scene, her period begins, insinuating that the trauma of the night has caused her to miscarry and that she is not pregnant. Carrie cries out for her mother and dies, every detail of her death witnessed by a horrified Sue, who later identifies Carrie's body for the official records. Sue and Carrie have a brief telepathic conversation as Carrie uses her telepathy to communicate with Sue, in which she convinces Carrie she had no part in Chris's plan. Three hours later, Sue finds Carrie lying by a wrecked car driven by Billy Nolan and Chris Hargensen, near death from being stabbed by her mother Margaret. The deputy later recalls Sue stating "They've hurt Carrie for the last time," indicating that she had no part in what happened. She later flags down a deputy sheriff, who interrogates her. ![]() She gets out of the car, and is knocked down by the explosion of a gas station nearby. She slams on the brakes, and the car screeches to a stop, throwing her against the steering wheel. Speeding towards the school, Sue is horrified when the school explodes. When the town whistle begins blowing, Sue looks out her window, sees the fire at the school and rushes to her mother's car. Staying home on prom night, she begins to doubt her own motives: worry about her late period – she both fears and hopes she is pregnant – and the possibility of Tommy falling for Carrie. While preparing for the prom, purchasing a gown and accepting Tommy's invitation, Sue begins to plan for Carrie to go to the prom in her place. When the prank happened, Sue had been dating Tommy Ross for six months. It is implied that Sue only acted under peer pressure, being one of popular girl Chris Hargensen's friends and therefore under the pressure of Chris to be popular. When Carrie breaks down emotionally after having her first period in the shower, unaware of what menstruation is, Sue joins her classmates in gleefully taunting her and pelting her with tampons, repeatedly chanting, "Plug it up!" Their gym teacher, Rita Desjardin, who broke up the incident and calmed the panicking Carrie down, says that Sue is not a bully by nature and therefore her participation in the shower incident is out of character. ![]() ![]() Sue is a popular student at Ewen High School. In the novel, King uses commentaries by Sue Snell as one of his innovative narrative techniques to tell Carrie's history.
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