Helen On Eighty-Sixth Street Sparknotes

In Helen on Eighty-sixth Street by Wendi Kaufman, Vita is in a play but doesn't get the part she wants so she's sad and mad at the person that got the part. Vita's dad left her and her mom So her mom after a little while starts dating a new guy that Vita doesn't like because she thinks her mom is trying to replace her dad. Then she made an offering with burnt-up cards she wrote for her dad, but didn't know where to send them. She burnt the cards and made three wishes to act as Helen in the play, to have her father return, and for Old Farfel to leave her mom's life. After two of those things happened, she thought the wishes were coming true, but her dad never returned.

In Helen on eighty-sixth Street, her losses are more important than her