Appearances Are Deceptive In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Appearances are deceptive in Twain’s The adventures of Huckleberry Finn. A formidable critic of conventional society, Tawain develops a masterpiece exposing the Hypocrisy of American frontier society of the 1840’s.Among the important discrepancies between illusion and reality in this novel are The widow Douglas, the Grangerfords and Shepherdsons, and Huck are not always as they appear. The widow Douglas appears to be a Christian like woman but that is not the whole truth. She did “get out her book and learned” (3) Huck “about Moses and the Bulrushes.” (2) Sure she acts