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The Witches Of Eastwick

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John Updike’s The Witches of Eastwick presents Alexandra, Sukie, and Jane in a fairly unsympathetic manner. From making fun of Greta Neff’s accent and appearance (26), with the novel’s narrator later acknowledging that “her accent was never as bad as the people poking fun of it would have had you believe” (289), to their lack of interest in their children, such as when they talk about how they must “either go home to make their suppers or at least phone the house to put the oldest daughter in charge” (102) but do not actually do so, to Alexandra’s murder of the squirrel (220), which occurs not as part of a spell or for a greater purpose but just because Alexandra can, the three women appear cruel and selfish. What effect might this unflattering
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