Helen on 86 th Street

Vita

Helen on 86th Street

Is playing the Trojan Horse in their play

Lives on West Eighty-sixth Street with her mom, their cat Marlowe, and their birds, the Keatses, John & John

Has lived in this apartment her whole life

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Vita…

Hasn’t seen her father for almost three years

Writes a letter to her father every night, but doesn’t send them because she doesn’t know where to send them; she puts them in shoe boxes at the back of her closet

Burned all the letters to her father in Argus’ old dish and spilled the ashes in Argus’ urn

Knows all of Helen’s lines for the play

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Vita…

What Vita SAYS makes me think…She wants to be

beautiful.“Would Daddy think

I was beautiful?”

She’s really jealous that she didn’t have the role of Helen.

“I hate Helen. That’s all I can say. I hate her. Helen McGuire is playing Helen, so Mr. Dodd says, because, out of the entire sixth grade, she most embodies Helen of Troy.”