This is the first wife of protagonist Paul Christopher's second cousin, Elliott Hubbard. Alice is throughout the novel a source of quips about the family's idiosyncrasies. Alice gives birth to one son, Horace, who grows up to become an agent in The Outfit and associate of Paul. Alice divorces Elliott when she learns about an affair. Having studied Post-Impressionism at Vassar, she claims half of the family artwork. Alice is also the brother of Wadsworth "Waddy" Jessup, the wartime nemesis of Barnabas "Barney" Wolkowicz, a close confident of both Hubbard and Paul. Alice takes Waddy in after he is fired from The Outfit, having failed a polygraph question about homosexuality. Alice derides her brother for suddenly claiming not to be a lifelong communist. She believes that he ought to admit this before Congress and become a hero.
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