Jim, the widow's big, mild-mannered slave to whom Huck becomes very close in the novel.Samuel Clemens may have drawn inspiration for her from several people he knew in his life. She is pretty hard on Huck, causing him to resent her a good deal. The widow’s sister, a tough old spinster called Miss Watson, also lives with them.
She tries her best to civilize Huck, believing it is her Christian duty. Widow Douglas is the kind old lady who has taken him in after he and Tom come across the money.He has been brought up by his father, the town drunk, and has a hard time fitting into society. Huckleberry Finn, a boy about thirteen or fourteen.Webster And Company.Ī Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Satirizing a Southern antebellum society that had ceased to exist about twenty years before the work was published, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an often scathing look at entrenched attitudes, particularly racism.Ĭhatto & Windus / Charles L. The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. It is a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. It is told in the first person by Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, a friend of Tom Sawyer and narrator of two other Twain novels ( Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer, Detective). Commonly named among the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major American literature to be written in the vernacular, characterized by local color regionalism. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in England in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885.
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