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Kate's Suicide from "East of Eden". Kate, haunted by her past and the confrontation with her sons, decides to end her life. She writes a will leaving everything to Aron.

Late November 1917

Kate's Suicide

Kate, haunted by her past and the confrontation with her sons, decides to end her life. She writes a will leaving everything to Aron. She then takes a morphine capsule in her gray room, a small, windowless space she had built as a refuge. She dies alone, having finally 'disappeared' as she had always wished.