Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Characters

We don’t envy Huck Finn. To begin, the boy’s got about ten systems of conflicting rules he’s trying to sort out. He has to decide to what and whom he feels loyal: follow religion,...

Jim’s relationship with Huck is the first place to start. Although it takes Huck some time to appreciate Jim as a person, not as property, Jim is compassionate and caring from the get-go. Whe...

Tom Sawyer is Huck’s good friend, introduced in a previous book by Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Huck calls him a "well-brought up" boy, and we see that he is also well read, imag...

The king is the older of the two con artists that Jim and Huck meet in Chapter 19, and he’s definitely the worse of the two. Twain points out this fact in the first con the two men pull; the...

Huck’s father, or "Pap" as he calls him, is an easy character to hate. He is physically abusive to Huck. Pap is a drunk who tries to steal his son’s money for alcohol and won’t le...

While her sister, Miss Watson, just seems like a broken record of constant nagging, the widow is a bit more compassionate towards Huck. At the end of the Adventures of Tom Sawyer (this novel’...

The Grangerford clan is Twain's example of a traditional aristocratic family living in the pre-Civil War South. They’re extremely wealthy: each family member has his or her own personal serva...

Upon meeting, Buck and Huck immediately become pals. As the youngest member of the Grangerford clan, Buck is happy to have a guy around who’s his own age. He and Huck have similar adventurous...

Tom’s Aunt Polly doesn’t make her grand entrance until the very end of the novel, but that woman has awesome timing (see Chapter 42). Although she’s around a lot more in the Adven...

The king happens to sell Jim to Tom’s aunt and uncle. Aunt Sally and Uncle Silas are good natured and hospitable southern folk with lots of children. The two fall for a bunch of Tom and Huck&...

We don’t know much about the Shepherdson family other than the fact that they are the rival clan of Huck’s adoptive family, the Grangerfords. The Shepherdson plantation is about five mi...

Although Sherburn and Boggs are only in the story for a short time, they make quite an impression. Neither has anything to do with the overall plot of the novel, so what gives, Mr. Twain? It seems...

Judge Thatcher and Widow Douglass are the dynamic duo fighting for Huck’s safety and well-being at the start of the novel. The judge is super-respectable and seems like an all-around good guy...

Good grief! Miss Watson just will not give Huck a break. As one of Huck’s guardians before Pap steals him away, Miss Watson is definitely Huck’s least favorite pseudo-mom. We imagine he...

The Wilks family is the target of one of the duke and the king’s most conniving scams. The two cons learn from a local young man that Peter Wilks, a fairly wealthy local tanner, has just pass...