 Whenever Margaret believed that Carrie had sinned by going to school, she would throw her in a specially decorated closet to pray for forgiveness (out of no fault of her own), usually leaving her there for several hours or even days as a punishment.Margaret believes that anything or everything is a sin and harbors extremely restrictive views on sexuality.She feels that only "loose women" develop breasts, or "dirty pillows" as she calls them; she feels that she herself developed breasts due to the way Carrie was conceived.