# The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — Character guide

> Key figures in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.

- [Huckleberry Finn](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/huckleberry_finn.md): Huck narrates from the bottom of the social ladder, a motherless kid with a fortune he can't touch and a conscience nobody taught him to trust. He chafes against the widow's civilizing and Pap's whiskey, so the Mississip
- [Tom Sawyer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/tom_sawyer.md): Tom is respectable, imaginative, and utterly committed to doing things by the book — even when the book is a prison romance he half remembers. He argues that prisoners have a right to steal what they need, then scolds Hu
- [Jim](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/jim.md): Jim is hunted with a three-hundred-dollar reward on his head, suspected of a murder he didn't commit, and hiding on Jackson's Island when Huck stumbles onto him. He is practical, superstitious, and deeply loyal, trading 
- [Pap Finn](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/pap_finn.md): Pap is the town's cautionary tale and Huck's private nightmare, a man who rages about the government and the 'nigger' vote while scheming to get his hands on his son's six thousand dollars. He drags Huck to a lonely cabi
- [Aunt Sally](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/aunt_sally.md): Aunt Sally runs a household of kin, hired hands, and constant small emergencies, greeting Huck as Tom with hugs and a barrage of questions about the family he's never met. She is kind, nosy, and quick to fuss over trifle
- [Miss Watson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/miss_watson.md): Miss Watson is a tolerable old maid with a spelling-book and a set of rules for everything, pecking at Huck to sit straight and stop gaping. She lectures him about the good place and the bad place, then sells Jim downriv
- [Widow Douglas](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/widow_douglas.md): She is the respectable force in St. Petersburg that plucks Huck off the streets and attempts to raise him proper, offering him a home he never asked for. Her kindness is real but rigid, and Huck chafes under her rules wh
- [Judge Thatcher](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/judge_thatcher.md): The local judge who holds Huck's money in trust.
- [The Duke](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/duke.md): He joins Huck and Jim's raft as a self-styled Duke of Bilgewater, lending the King a partner in fraud and giving the voyage a new, uneasy cast. His vanity and quick invention make him both comic and dangerous, especially
- [The King](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/king.md): He attaches himself to Huck and Jim's raft as a self-proclaimed monarch, and with the Duke turns the journey into a rolling series of frauds. His oily charm and total absence of conscience make him a foil to Jim's honest
- [Mary Jane Wilks](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/mary_jane_wilks.md): She is the red-haired Wilks sister who welcomes the two frauds as long-lost uncles, believing their tears and accepting their story without suspicion. Her openness and grief put her at the center of one of Huck's sharpes
- [Silas Phelps](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/silas_phelps.md): He is Tom Sawyer's uncle and the head of the Arkansas farm where Huck's journey lands, a decent, forgetful man who owns slaves without much reflection. His purchase of Jim as a runaway sets up the story's final tangle, a
- [Aunt Polly](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/aunt_polly.md): Tom's aunt who arrives at the Phelps farm and sorts out the mistaken identities.
- [Buck Grangerford](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/buck_grangerford.md): A young boy from the feuding Grangerford family who befriends Huck.
- [Emmeline Grangerford](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/emmeline_grangerford.md): A deceased Grangerford daughter known for her morbid poetry and drawings.
- [Colonel Grangerford](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/col_grangerford.md): The patriarch of the Grangerford family, killed in the feud.
- [Peter Wilks](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/peter_wilks.md): The deceased man whose inheritance the King and Duke try to steal.
- [Harvey Wilks](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/harvey_wilks.md): Peter Wilks's brother, a minister who arrives to expose the fraud.
- [Dr. Robinson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/dr_robinson.md): The local doctor who sees through the King and Duke's disguise.
- [Jim Turner](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/jim_turner.md): A wounded robber left on the wrecked steamboat Walter Scott.
- [Jake Packard](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/jake_packard.md): One of the robbers on the wrecked steamboat Walter Scott.
- [Ben Rogers](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/ben_rogers.md): A boy from Tom Sawyer's gang who appears in the early chapters.
- [Jo Harper](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/jo_harper.md): A friend of Tom Sawyer and member of his robber gang.
- [Nat](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/nat.md): An enslaved man on the Phelps farm who helps with Jim's escape.
- [Levi Bell](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/levi_bell.md): A lawyer who helps sort out the Wilks inheritance.
- [Susan Wilks](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/susan_wilks.md): One of Peter Wilks's daughters.
- [Sid Sawyer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/sid_sawyer.md): Tom's younger half-brother, who appears briefly at the Phelps farm.
- [Miss Sophia](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/miss_sophia.md): A Grangerford daughter who elopes with Harney Shepherdson.
- [Lizabeth](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/lizabeth.md): A young enslaved girl on the Phelps farm.
- [Bill](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/bill.md): One of the robbers on the wrecked steamboat.
- [Old Hank Bunker](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/huckleberry_finn_se/characters/old_hank_bunker.md): A local man mentioned in town gossip.

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