Susan Snell's perception on Carrietta White's revenge in Carrie by Stephen King

This research discussed a novel by Stephen King, entitled Carrie. Carrie is a misfit student in her school and she has a frightening power, named telekinetic power. In this research, the researcher focuses on the perception of Susan Snell to Carrietta White’s revenge. Susan Snell is Carrie’s friend that mock and throw the tampons to Carrie in the shower room. As Susan apologizing to Carrie, Susan convinces her boyfriend to invite Carrie to the Spring Ball party. The effect of Susan’s decision, Carrie destroys the school and city as her revenge on her friends. The purpose of this research is to answer the statement of problems, they are: the chronology of Carrietta White’s revenge and the perception of Susan Snell toward Carrietta White’s revenge. To solve the cases, the researcher applies phenomenology theory as the main theory to find out the perception of Susan Snell and new criticism theory as a supporting theory to know the chronology of Carrietta White’s revenge. The researcher uses a descriptive-qualitative method to discover the data. Then the result of this research shows that there are two perceptions of Susan Snell toward Carrietta White’s revenge: Carrie is a marginalized girl and Carrie as a mock object of her friends. Besides, Susan realizes that her decision to invite Carrie to the Spring Ball party also causes Carrie’s revenge to her friends.