Many feminist critics have argued that Updike's presentation of women in novels like Rabbit, Run Of the Farm, Marry Me and The Witches of Eastwick labors under male biases. This criticism came to head in the response to S. (1998), a novel written in the form of letters and tapes to people back home by Sarah Worth, a modern-day Hester Prynne who has fled her wealthy suburban marriage in the East for a guru in a desert commune. In coming to my own reading, I will approach S. with various questions in mind. (1) To what extent does feminist theory enter into Sarah's discussion of issues like her rights as a woman, her rejection of self-sacrifice for family in favor of self-development? (2) How do updiske's reinscriptions of Hindu concepts and terminology into S. interact with the notions and terminology of Western feminism? (3) To what are the implications of Updik's displacement of the male-female-male love triangle usually found in romantic comedy with a female - male - female erotic triangle? (5) How does Updike's choice of the epistolary mode impinge upon the feminism of this novel?