Father Finn

When reading the chapters including Huck Finn's father, Pap, I've been trying to understand why Pap has the personality and disposition that he has. Pap could've been neglected as a child or had had parents with poor parenting skills. Pap most likely had dad problems therefore causing him to not fulfill the duties Pap was made responsible for as soon as Huck was born. He treats Huck with utter disrespect and he has such a disgusting, childish mindset towards Huck that he doesn't want Huck to live a better or more privileged life than Pap had lived. Because Pap left Huck for over a year by himself, Huck had less of an ability to act like a child and have a fun childhood. Huck had to learn how to fend for himself which made him be very practical for his own sake since he lacked a father figure. Pap is a crazy drunk that can't hold down a job, support a son, or quit his drinking. He has little respect for others so as I'm going through the book I can see that it was actually, not as a whole, but specifically beneficial to Huck to not have Pap around as his father. It would've been better for Huck to have had a father during his kid years, but if his dad was going to be Pap then he was better off without him.