How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
[Pudd'nhead] busied himself with another matter, muttering from time to time "Idiot that I was!—nothing but a girl would do me—a man in girl's clothes never occurred to me." (20.28)
Nice save, Pudd'nhead. The fact that someone as sharp as Pudd'nhead was fooled for so long by Tom's disguise suggests how rigid ideas about what men and women are supposed to look like can end up blinding us to important truths.