Who is Harold Smith from The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer and what is their importance? The_Secret_Diary_of_Laura_Palmer English & Literature Harold Smith | The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer

Smith is a client to who Laura delivers food as the result of her Norma-inspired decision to help the shut-ins of Twin Peaks (Smith is an agoraphobic, someone afraid of open spaces). Laura describes him as handsome, intelligent, vulnerable and trustworthy, all qualities she sees herself betraying later in their relationship when she forcibly seduces him. Ultimately, however, he becomes the last person that she trusts, a circumstance indicated by her leaving her diary with him for safekeeping.