The Hearing Trumpet starts with the narrator being given a hearing trumpet. She then describes where she lives in a strange digression. She narrates unusually like a personal dialogue.

She then goes on a routine visit to Carmilla, her friend who gave her the trumpet. Their conversation is described so tediously that you can feel their desire to escape their lives.

The narrator mentions feeling like she spent her whole life waiting for something that never happened. Angered after her family decides to institutionalize her and her son says she’d be better off dead, she visits Carmilla again, and thinks how much she will miss her. Packing up her things, she finds her trunk and flashes back to when she bought it in New York. In the institution, she is horrified by how they treat another woman there. It then shifts to arguments with the doctor, then continues to idly describe the boring activities she does. There is then a horribly long speech by a visiting young man that I could not stand to read. Then, a woman at the home does. Another woman, Anna, starts accusing the narrator of things she couldn’t do.

The ending loses me and I can’t comprehend what’s happening.