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What is the irony in the widow’s actions as shown in the passage?
The widow insists that smoking is a mean and unclean practice.
The widow declares a habit unfit for Huck while having a similar habit herself.
She is more interested in Moses and other stories from the Bible than helping Huckleberry.
She pretends to be a caring woman, but she only finds fault in Huckleberry.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain (excerpt)
Pretty soon I wanted to smoke, and asked the widow to let me. But she wouldn't. She said it was a mean practice and wasn't clean, and I must try to not do it any more. That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don't know nothing about it. Here she was a-bothering about Moses, which was no kin to her, and no use to anybody, being gone, you see, yet finding a power of fault with me for doing a thing that had some good in it. And she took snuff, too; of course that was all right, because she done it herself.