My wife and I felt the same way. Mostly meh. I thought the little black egg thing the Ashman gave her was a seed or something. A seed that caused her to become even more of a puppet. The seed her mother watered her whole life, turning the main character into a mindless drone that just does as instructed. The blood that splattered on the seed seemed to signify the main character's last resistance, her final struggle against being a drone, die. Which seemed to be fortified with her acceptance of the box she finally climbs into.
