Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Grangerford's WorldHuckleberry Finn provides the narrative voice of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and his honest voice combined with the His personal vulnerabilities reveal the different layers of the Grangerfords' world. Huck is without family: neither Pap's drunken attentions nor the Widow Douglas's pious care were desirable fidelity. He comes across the Grangerfords in the dark, lost from Jim and the raft. The family, after an initial cross-examination, welcomes, feeds and houses Huck with a lovable boy his age. In the light of the next morning, Huck estimates that "it was a very nice family, and a very nice house too" (110). This is the first of many compliments Huck pays to the Grangerfords and their possessions. Huck is impressed with all the Grangerfords' possessions and generously offers compliments. The books are stacked on the table "perfectly exact" (111), the table had a cover made of "beautiful oilcloth" (111), and one book was filled with "beautiful stuff and poetry" (111). He also evaluates the chairs, noting that they are "nice chairs with split bottoms, and perfectly whole too, not sagging in the middle and broken, like an old basket" (111). It is evident that Huck is more familiar with broken chairs than healthy ones, and appreciates the distinction. Huck is also more familiar with imperfect families than loving, virtuous ones, and is happy to sing the praises of the people who have taken him in. Colonel Grangerford "was a gentleman through and through; and so was his family" (116). The colonel was kind, polite, calm and anything but frivolous. Everyone wanted to be around him and he trusted Huck. Unlike the drunken dad, the colonel dressed well, was clean-shaven, and his face had "no sign of red anywhere" (116). Huck admired the way the Colonel gently governed his family with hints of subdued temper. The same character exists in one of his daughters: "she had a look that made you wither, like her father. She was beautiful" (117). Huck doesn't think negatively about hints of iron in the people he sees he's happy to take care of him and let them take care of him. He doesn't ask how three of the colonel's sons died, or why the family brings weapons to family picnics. For him these are small aspects of a family with "a good amount of quality" (118).