The country would primarily be different in the sense that African Americans and whites would no longer be working under the same facilites, nor learning in the same school, etc. However this was outlawed primarily in the Brown v. Board of education case followed by the Civil Rights Act.
No one can really help you on this, this is a question that you should be asking yourself and writing on your own. Ask yourself "what can I do better, what can I do differently that will help me improve"
It was the beating of the old man's heart. It's not madness, says the narrator, "but over-acuteness" of his sense of hearing caused by his nervousness, as he says in the opening paragraph of the story. ... The narrator's obsession shifts from the old man's "Evil Eye" to the old man's loudly beating heart.
Her response was shocked because she didn't expect it
