- This chapter starts with the word and sentence: "Silence" (7.457).
- The narrator asks us if the ending of his story was as grand as we expected.
- Um … yes?
- He ends this section with: "At heart, Macabéa was little better than a music box sadly out of tune. I ask you: what is the weight of light?" (7.460-461).
- So, here is a fun list of things the narrator compares Macabéa to in her death: out-of-tune music, bells that don't make sound, air, and light.