Tom’s Selfish Desires Imagine betraying someone who has made great sacrifices for people and puts others before
Themselves . In the book Pudd’nhead Wilson Mark Twain gives the reader a very good insight into how racism and social class affect how people perceive others. In this book, Roxy a slave decides to make a major switch to give her son Chambers a better life. Roxy then makes the bold choice to switch her son with her master’s son Tom. Her son now grows up as
Tom, a privileged white boy. While on the other hand,Tom grows up as chambers, an African
American slave. In Mark Twain’s novel “Pudd’nhead Wilson” Tom’s selfishness is majorly influenced by the nurture of growing up in a privileged white household, where white people are
