My apologies to the group for an odd question. The opening passage of Chapter 19 of Huckleberry Finn is famous: "The first thing to see, looking away over the water . . ." The passage ends with "dead fish laying around, gars and such, and they do get pretty rank . . . " Can anyone tell me of academic critics who have written about this passage in the context of Realism? Thanks very much. Gary Henrickson