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A small locket containing a photo of Arnold — created and obsessively treasured by Helga as the centerpiece of her secret devotion.
The locket is the most tangible symbol of Helga's secret inner life — her love for Arnold made physical and hidden. She consults it, presses it to her heart, and delivers speeches to it in private moments of particularly intense feeling. It would be comic if it weren't so clearly genuine. The locket represents everything Helga cannot say out loud: that she is vulnerable, that she loves someone, that she has an interior life that her public persona is designed to conceal. It is the softest thing she owns.
A small, gold-toned heart-shaped locket on a thin chain, holding inside it a tiny photograph of Arnold cut from a class picture. The locket is worn, handled constantly, and warm from Helga's grip. From the outside it looks like an ordinary child's jewelry piece; inside is the evidence of something much more complicated.
Also known as: the locket, Helga's locket