Nora becomes indignant and says that she too has “something to be proud and happy about.” She goes on to tell Mrs. Linde that she saved her husband's life when he was sick.
Mrs. Linde says she remembers Nora being a “spendthrift” in their school days, and Nora admits that Torvald still calls her that. However, she says that she is smarter than that, and explains that she couldn't have spent a lot as they haven't had much money, and that she and Torvald have both had to work.
Nora is the main character of the play, and we get to find out about her secret when Mrs. Linde comes to have a chat with her. It appears that Nora borrowed a large sum of money from Krogstad to pay for the trip to Italy. It was the only chance to help Torvald improve his health.
1968 Nora confesses to Christine that her husband had a mental health crisis a few years ago and at the time, Nora had to raise money and run the household. However she refuses to tell Christine how she raised the money, choosing to keep it a secret instead.
She describes how she secretly repaid installments of the debt by stinting on her personal expenses and taking in copying work to do at night. Christine is amazed that Nora has not mentioned the matter to her husband in all these years.
What secret has Nora been keeping from Torvald? She was in love with his brother before she married him.
It is then revealed that she forged her father's signature in order to get the money. Krogstad threatens to reveal Nora's crime and thus disgrace her and her husband unless Nora can convince her husband not to fire him.
Nora says that she realizes that she is childlike and knows nothing about the world. She feels alienated from both religion and the law, and wishes to discover on her own, by going out into the world and learning how to live life for herself, whether or not her feelings of alienation are justified.
Although this at first seems like a betrayal of Nora, it turns out to ultimately be a decision to Nora's benefit as it is after Torvald finds out about the debt that Nora is able to see the true nature of her marriage. This twist confirms Mrs. Linde's belief that honesty is always better than deceit, even if Mrs.
A Doll's House ends with the slamming of a door. Nora turns her back on her husband and kids and takes off into the snow (brr) to make her own way in the world (brrrrr). It's a pretty bold decision, to say the least.
Years ago, Nora Helmer committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald.
Linde believed she had to marry someone with money so that she could take care of her family. She sacrificed her own happiness and reputation in order to fulfill her duties to her family. She sacrificed her own feelings for Krogstad, by making him believe she was not someone he should love. Mrs.
In her younger days, she had to sacrifice love for the sake of her family. Rather than marrying the dashing young Nils Krogstad, she married a businessman, Mr. Linde, so that she could support her sick mother and her two younger brothers.
Nora is a victim of the male-dominated society of the nineteenth century. To save her husband, Torvald, she borrows money so that he might be able to recover from a life-threatening illness in a warmer climate.
Nora remarks that Mrs. Linde looks paler and thinner than she remembered and apologizes profusely for not writing three years earlier, when she read in the paper that Mrs. Linde's husband had died.
At first, Nora's interaction with Dr. Rank is similarly manipulative. When she flirts with him by showing her stockings, it seems that she hopes to entice Dr. Rank and then persuade him to speak to Torvald about keeping Krogstad on at the bank.
While speaking with Nora, Dr. Rank confesses his love for her, adding that Torvald is not the only man who would make sacrifices for her. In the end, however, we learn that Torvald does not even consider sacrificing himself for Nora. In his confession, Dr.
Mrs. Linde acts as a foil to Nora, providing a serious contrast to Nora's frivolous personality and highlighting the spoiled life Nora leads.
Rank is a doctor who is best friends with Torvald and Nora, who he visits every day. Dr. Rank suffers from spinal tuberculosis, a condition he believes was caused by his father's vices, which included having extramarital affairs and consuming too much luxurious food and drink.
In that moment, she realizes that her marriage has been nothing but a sham and walks out the door, never to return. After such a triumphant exit, what could possibly bring Nora back to the home she once shared with Torvald and their three young children?
At the end of A Doll's House, Nora makes the ultimate assertion of her agency and independence by walking out on her husband and her children in order to truly understand herself and learn about the world.
Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House ends with an infamous door slam. Nora Helmer, a housewife in Norway, leaves her husband, Torvald Helmer, in a dramatic exit that rocked audiences when the play debuted in Copenhagen in 1879 and continues to divide viewers today.
Nora believes herself to be a doll because the men in her life see her more as a toy than a human being.
In the final moments of clarity she has at the end of the play, Nora claims that she has been “wronged greatly” by her father, who ensured that “nothing's become of [her]” because he constantly exposed her to his opinions and forced his views upon her (Ibsen 1015).
Kristine Linde is a practical, down-to-earth woman, and her sensible worldview highlights Nora's somewhat childlike outlook on life. Mrs. Linde's account of her life of poverty underscores the privileged nature of the life that Nora leads.