Summary

In Chapter 8, the narrator works some more on her novel. The protagonist of the novel is a typist whose boyfriend is her former typing teacher. She has lost her voice and does not know why. She uses a typewriter to be able to communicate with her boyfriend. R comes to the narrator’s house to read over the newest pages of her novel. They then discuss the narrator’s deceased parents. The narrator mentions the cabinet in the basement where the narrator’s mother used to keep items that had been disappeared. The narrator allows R to look in the cabinet, which is now empty. R asks the narrator to do her best to remember and describe the objects. The narrator surprises herself when she is able to recall some vague traits of the objects. R then states the names of the objects based...