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It all depends on how we view Twain's approach to the novel. Did he spend a lot of effort representing the settings, characters, and dialect to reflect reality? Will making such changes jar on the reader as being unnatural?
I think the more interesting question is: Would Twain ever make such a change, even if he were alive today?
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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