“Stephen King and the Making of Carrie,” Mental Floss illustrates the struggle Stephen King had throughout his life along with writing the book “Carrie”. This included not being wealthy throughout his life, being difficult for him to write from a girl’s perspective along with his success he had with the book. This passage started off by Floss explaining Kings life before success. King was never wealthy he worked about three jobs in the summer this included an industrial laundry, moonlight as a janitor, and gas pump attendant. While working three jobs he still didn’t have enough money to by a type writer, so he borrowed his wife’s, Tabby, type writer which many joke around saying King only married Tabby only for her type writer, not only did