Abstract
In the past several years, as the body of criticism on the intertextual relationship between Nathaniel Hawthorne and John Updike has grown, critics have looked at the larger or more general influences of Hawthorne on Updike, and readers of Updike's A Month of Sundays, Roger's Version, S., and even The Witches of Eastwick have focused specifically on his engagement with The Scarlet Letter. The first three of those novels take on, in one way or another, Hawthorne's classic; and as Updike himself has pointed out, each work is a contemporary retelling of Hawthorne's story from the perspective of one of the three major figures involved: Arthur Dimmesdale, Roger Chillingworth, and Hester Prynne, respectively.1
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