This
paper examines the history of controversy that surrounds Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", with an emphasis
on critics'
recent readings of the interracial friendship between Huck and Jim. The
paper explains that, by ignoring the novel's historical context and the fact that the story is told by an unreliable narrator, much recent criticism has misinterpreted Twain's work, including its much maligned ending.