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The true meaning of the beating heart beneath the floorboard is two fold. Firstly there was a slight touch of madness, however the majority of it was guilt for the old murder of the old man.

But the narrator comes in 8 nights and watches the old man, but on the dead of the hour on the 8th night, the narrator kills the old man. :) :p :D
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It represents the love the old man had & the narrator's guilty conscience.

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