Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - The World of the GrangerfordsHuckleberry Finn provides the narrative voice of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and his honest voice combined with his Personal vulnerabilities reveal the different levels of the Grangerfords' world. Huck is without family: neither Pap's drunken attention nor Widow Douglas's pious ministrations were a desirable allegiance. He comes across the Grangerfords in the darkness, lost to Jim and the raft. The family, after an initial cross-examination, welcomes, feeds and lodges Huck with a kind boy his age. In the light of the next morning, Huck believes 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 by all of the Grangerfords' possessions and generously offers compliments. The books are stacked on the table “perfectly correct” (111), the table had a cover made of “beautiful oilcloth” (111) and one book was filled with “beautiful things and poetry” (111). He even evaluates the chairs, noting that they are "pretty split-bottom chairs, and perfectly sound, they are not crushed in the middle and broken, like an old basket" (111). It is obvious that Huck is more familiar with broken chairs than good ones, and he appreciates this distinction. Huck is also more familiar with imperfect families than loving and virtuous ones, and he is happy to sing the praises of the people who have taken him in. Colonel Grangerford “was a gentleman throughout, as was his family” (116). The colonel was kind, well-mannered, calm and far from frivolous. Everyone wanted to be with him and he gave Huck confidence. Unlike Drunk Pap, the Colonel was well dressed, he was clean shaven, and his face "had not a trace of red anywhere" (116). Huck admired the way the colonel managed his family gently, with hints of submerged character. The same character exists in one of his daughters: "she had a look that would make you collapse, like her father. She was beautiful" (117). Huck doesn't think negatively about iron notes in people he is happy to take care of him and let them take care of him. He doesn't ask how three of the colonels' sons died, or why the family brings guns to family picnics. He sees them as small facets of a family with "a lot of quality" (118).