"Seeking personal freedom"

The widow rung a bell for supper, and you had to come to time. When you got to the table you couldn't go right to eating, but you had to wait for the widow to tuck down her head and grumble a little over the victuals, though there warn't really anything the matter with them. (Chapter 1)

Huck dislikes being tied down and living the life of the widow's reformed upstanding citizen. Huck yearns for the freedom to be himself among the elements free from the constraints of polite society.