It’s either age or happiness not completely sure tho
Both of them talk to about their life to the boy. Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones gives Roger shoes in the end.
It allows him to hear the war drum that forces him to kill. The acute silence makes the narrator so uncomfortable, he must make the old man scream. The narrator thinks that only killing the old man will make all of the surrounding noises disappear
It is ness cause i had the same answer and i got it