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…showed last 75 words of 5227 total…no escape from a disappointing life. (An additional interpretation would be that she wants to demonstrate what a beautiful death is, assuming she has shot herself in the head.) The events of the act have been hinted at throughout the play, beginning with the end of Act 1 when Hedda goes to play with her pistols out of boredom; once again she has turned to her pistols to alleviate her world- weariness and sense of tedium.