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The whole family was strange. You didn't meet her father's eyes. Not ever... that's how spooky he was.
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~ Stella Horan about Carrie's father, Ralph White.
Ralph White is the overarching antagonist of Stephen King’s 1974 horror novel Carrie.
This enigmatic man who was killed in the February of 1963, is the father of Carrie White and was married to Margaret White. He was not involved in raising Carrie, although all versions of the story strongly suggest that Carrie might have inherited her psychokinetic powers from his blood and not from that her own late maternal great-grandmother Sadie Cochran.
The paragraph "Mama had battled The Black Man and vanquished him. Carrie had seen it happen in a dream. Mama had driven him from the front door with a broom and The Black Man had fled up the street in the night. His cloven feet striking red sparks on the cement. Her mother had torn that something out of herself and was pure." Heavily implies that he may be one of the many identities/disguises of Randall Flagg, but this is not confirmed. If he was, this could imply that Flagg is Carrie's true father.
Ralph White came into contact with Margaret Brigham in 1960 and married her two years later. He was also a fundamentalist Christian and believed, as did his wife, that all forms of intercourse, even in marriage, were sinful as opposed to many other Christians who normally believe martial sex is something to be nurtured and enjoyed. After one night of raucous drinking with men, Ralph came home and heated by the alcohol, raped Margaret, resulting in the forthcoming pregnancy of their only child.
After her daughter Carrie White was conceived, Ralph died in a grisly construction accident.
Carrie (film versions)[]
The 1976 film version of Ralph was only mentioned by name during the movie. Carrie revealed at one point that "he ran away". Mrs. White tried to convince her child that her husband was tempted by The Devil and taken away. Carrie, on the other hand, saw The Devil as another woman, whom Ralph ran away with.
Twenty-three years later, Ralph was mentioned again by a woman named Barbara Lang, mother of her daughter named Rachel, the main protagonist of The Rage: Carrie 2. Barbara said that Ralph was the father of Rachel. Rachel herself possessed similar powers to Carrie, and was also considered an outsider, although Rachel was more independent and outspoken than Carrie. Meanwhile, a grown Sue Snell, the only survivor of the Bates High School Senior Prom disaster, tried to inform Rachel that she and Carrie were somehow related, since Ralph was father to both.
Trivia[]
Although Ralph’s personality has not been given, it is suggested that he was misogynistic and obsessive, due to him wanting to do what ever he wanted and he had raped Margaret which led to her getting pregnant, although he was under the influence.
Due to the implications that Ralph is in fact Randall Flagg, this would mean that Flagg was responsible for the events if there were connections in The Dark Tower series.
