Inside the story
Meet Aunt Sally
Aunt Sally Phelps is Tom Sawyer’s warm-hearted, easily flustered aunt and the woman of the Phelps farm. When Huck arrives, she mistakes him for Tom and becomes caught up in the boys’ elaborate scheme to help Jim escape.
On the page
A middle-aged farm wife in a plain dress and apron, quick to fluster and scold, forever bustling about her kitchen and household.








