One of the conflicts that Huck Finn had trouble reconciling was the hypocrisy of those in charge. For instance, the Grangerfords and Shepherdsons had nice houses, wore nice clothing and even went to church where they listened to sermons on the importance of brotherly love. Nonetheless, the Grangerfords and the Shepherdsons still owned slaves and shot each other to bits at any given moment. At one point, Huck even hid in a tree and watched his friend Buck get gunned down.
As Huck floats his way down the Mighty Misssissippi he becomes more and more disgusted by the behavior of the adults who put their own agendas before all else. The Grangerfords and Shepherdsons wanted things their own way as did the Duke, the Dauphin, Pap and others. By the end of the story, Huck knows that headin' for the territories is his only path away from the hypocrite world of the adults who pretend they know what's best.
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