Ann Putnam's action of sending her daughter to conjure spirits serves to enforce the underlying element of hypocrisy that many of the characters try to hide, yet all seem to display in some way. Ann Putnam's hypocrisy is clear in that she is one of the townspeople accusing her neighbors of witchcraft (specifically Rebecca Nurse who she believes killed her babies when she acted as midwife for their births), yet we learn that she had purposely sent her daughter to conjure spirits with Tituba to learn why her babies had died. Her husband's actions also take tihs hypocrisy a step further in that it seems he was prompting his daughter to accuse others of trying to bewitch her so that, upon their deaths, he could take their land and increase his wealth.
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