In the beginning of A Doll's House, Nora allows herself to follow social conformity and yield to every wish or whim of Helmer. For example, she is eating macaroons and as soon as Helmer walks into the room she will hide them so he doesn't know (2). At times she can be a giddy and submissive girl. When Nora finds out that Christine is a widow she says "Poor thing, how you must have suffered. And he left you nothing?" She is referring to the fact that Christine has nothing without a husband. No money and no children. It seems as though she feels that that is the only thing one can get out of marriage (6). Also within Act I we get to see Nora's freedom with

Act II opens to show Nora absolutely paranoid. She is pacing around her living room and showing nervousness that Krogstad might come over and ruin her. On pages 30 and 31, Nora hides these feelings from Christine because she cannot know her fear of Krogstad. As soon as Helmer walks into the room she completely covers her feelings and becomes happy and giddy because that is what Helmer wants her to be (33). Then after he leaves she becomes very anxious in fear that he may know some of her secret. She continues to be paranoid and is constantly trying to cover her lies until she comes to a realization. She says, "Five o'clock. Seven hours till midnight; and then four-and-twenty hours till the next midnight. Then the tarantella will be over. Twenty-four and seven? Thirty-one hours to live" (50). When she says 31 hours to live, what she really means is to live as a member of a family, to be a mother and to be a wife. This is the first big change in Nora. She has come to be so much stronger to realize what actually is coming her way.

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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)