In Mark Twain’s novel “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” he talks about small town life in Southern Mississippi. He portrays it as gossipy, a place where everyone knows everyone and knows everyone else’s business and doesn’t care to tell it. It is confining to Huck and Jim because there is too much conforming to society. This is why they escape on the raft. In Chapter 18 when Huck goes into town dressed as …showed first 75 words of 326 total…

…showed last 75 words of 326 total…look. Huck however, escapes their attempts to “sivilize” him by running away. Twain shows that he has some contempt for small town life and it’s behaviors. Miss Watson is one of the main people to show this because of her trying to change Huck. Twain attempts to demonstrate this by portraying small town life and gossipy and confining. His dislike is seen especially through Huck who escapes the conformity to live his own life.