The Grangerford episode is another relation to the sin of Pride. Huck experiences a fatal shootout between two feuding families: the Shepherdsons and the Grangerfords. Buck Grangerford, Huck's newfound friend on his adventure, is shot and killed because of his own father. Father Grangerford is so encircled with his own egotism and Pride, that he continues an age-old feud with their neighbors, the Shepherdsons. The disagreement between the families began almost thirty years before, and they no longer even knew for what it was that they were fighting. Buck states to Huck, " but they don't know, now, what the row was about the first place" (104). This example proves that Father Grangerford is too proud to find peace with the Shepherdsons, and consequently, a shootout begins, resulting in his own family's deaths. Pride, the most Deadly Sin, accompanies more evils throughout the novel, leading Huck down a path in which he will view all Seven Deadly Sins. .
In addition to Pride, the Deadly Sins of Avarice and Sloth are also apparent in transforming Huck's world into a nightmare of injustice and terror. Judith Loftus, a woman who lets Huck in her home as a female, shows a great deal of Avarice when a three-hundred dollar reward is offered for Jim, the runaway slave accompanying Huck down the Mississippi River to freedom. Judith discovers smoke on the island across the river from her house, and sends her husband out to see if the haze was from Jim. Judith's greed focuses only on the monetary reward for Jim, allowing herself to fall to the Deadly Sin of Avarice. The duke and the king also carry this sin with them. While in the towns of Pokeville and Brickville, the duke and the king perform "acts" of scandal and deceit in order to collect money for themselves. They perform "plays" in an attempt at bringing in hundreds of dollars, and in the end, they are successful. Huck then states, "Them rapscallions took in four hundred and sixty-five dollars in that three nights" (131).