Talk:Carrie (novel)/GA1

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

Let's see...


 * Lede


 * -> 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.
 * -> 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 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.
 * => Carrie, King's debut novel, helped launch his career and achieve him mainstream success.
 * Carrie received generally positive reviews The book
 * -> with
 * -> 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
 * evokes
 * - "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
 * as well as
 * 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)