text: Lily Bart performs this action in The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton and Martha performs this action in The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman.
full_question: Lily Bart performs this action in The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton and Martha performs this action in The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman. The protagonist performs this action at the end of “A Perfect Day for Bananafish,” and Joe Keller and Willy Loman carry out this action in two separate Arthur Miller plays. Two members of the Monzano family perform this action with “ice-nine” in Cat’s Cradle, and Quentin Compson does this in the Charles River after fastening tailor’s weights to his feet. In real life, Sylvia Plath performed this action by placing her head in an oven. For the points, name this self-inflicted method of death.
first_sentence: Lily Bart performs this action in The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton and Martha performs this action in The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman.