<P> Following Arnie 's 18th birthday party , Bonnie climbs the stairs to her bedroom for the first time since her husband 's suicide . Arnie later tries to wake her but discovers she has died . The children , not willing to let their mother become the joke of the town by having her corpse lifted from the house by crane , empty their family home of possessions and set it on fire . A year later , Gilbert describes what happened to his family after his mother 's death , as Gilbert and his brother Arnie wait by the side of a road for Becky , who arrives with her grandmother , and picks them up . </P>
<P> Following Arnie 's 18th birthday party , Bonnie climbs the stairs to her bedroom for the first time since her husband 's suicide . Arnie later tries to wake her but discovers she has died . The children , not willing to let their mother become the joke of the town by having her corpse lifted from the house by crane , empty their family home of possessions and set it on fire . A year later , Gilbert describes what happened to his family after his mother 's death , as Gilbert and his brother Arnie wait by the side of a road for Becky , who arrives with her grandmother , and picks them up . </P>
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Bonnie
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