1. She was not literally a victim, but probably felt like she was a victim.
2. By “unwieldy”, he means that it is not something that he intentionally means to portray. Just by the inheritance of being an African American boy he has been stereotyped.
3. In the first paragraph, he turns a corner and happens to be following a young woman; she looks back worriedly and speeds up and eventually runs away. He also makes references to people locking their doors when they saw him, people would pass to the other side of the street, being mistaken for a burglar at the jewelry store, and at his editors office.
4. I don’t think it would change anything. The way the story is written paints a good enough picture.
5. I think that most people do not think of burglars as being educated. Knowing songs written by Beethoven give the impression that the person is intelligent and probably not a burglar.
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