| A | B |
| Pap | is attacked by delirium tremens |
| Jim | explains what "trash" is |
| Huck | picaro |
| Tom | Romanticism |
| Widow Douglas | believes in a merciful god |
| Colonel Grangerford | becomes furious at his daughter's elopement |
| Emmeline Grangerford | preoccupies self with death |
| Miss Watson | believes in a stern god |
| King | pretends to be Parson Wilks |
| Harney | loves member of opposing family |
| Aunt Sally | loses a sheet and spoons |
| Mrs. Loftus | tests a visitor with a lump of lead |
| Duke | pretends to be Bridgewater |
| Boggs | Killed as a result of his own insults |
| Colonel Sherburn | repels a lynch mob |
| Sid Phelps | is never seen in the novel |
| Peter Wilks | wealthy Englishman who died |
| Judge Thatcher | Man who invests Huck's money |