Life and Work of Mark Twain

The Performance of Tom Sawyer (1x12)

Date de diffusion: Jan 01, 2002

Tom's need to be attended to as a "glittering hero" acts in symbiosis with the bored townspeople's need for a flamboyant and vicarious distraction. By the end, Tom's character has grown, but the novel's attention has shifted almost entirely to the anti-hero, Huck Finn.