1. Grangerford Style
More satire by Twain

2. Tacky or Classy
brass door knobs
CLASSY

3. Tacky or Classy
carpeting
CLASSY

4. Tacky or Classy ?
curtains
with castles,
vines, and cattle

5. Tacky or Classy
red brick fireplace
CLASSY

6. Tacky or Classy
tablecloth
with red and blue eagle ?

7. Tacky or Classy
crockery parrot,
cat, and dog
TACKY

8. Tacky or Classy
crockery
fruit basket
(with chipped fruit)
TACKY

9. Tacky or Classy
Piano
(sounds like two
tin pans)
TACKY

10. Tacky or Classy
mantle clock
(doesn’t turn right)
TACKY

11. Tacky or Classy
CLASSY
books

12. Tacky or Classy
wild turkey wing fans
TACKY

13. Tacky or Classy
white-washed
exterior walls
CLASSY

14. Tacky or Classy
Emmiline’s
sorrowful
paintings ?

15. The Grangerfords… Are not as classy as they seem
They might have money, but money doesn’t automatically bring sophistication

16. The fruitbasket…
“…they warn’t real because you could see where pieces had chipped off and showed the white chalk, or whatever it was, underneath.”
The Grangerfords look great from the outside, but when you get closer, you see their flaws (chips) in their character/lifestyle.
Their hate for the Shepherdson is a major flaw that ruins the family.

17. Emmilene Grangerford…
is an 1800 Gothic
obsessed with death and dying
irony – she died young
foreshadows the end of chapter 18

18. Twain uses satire to…
Symbol – of the misery behind the Grangerford’s fascade
Huck says how hard it is to be a writer:
Twain struggled writing Huck Finn
Took 7-10 years