Before Nora’s change, she demonstrates to be very thoughtless and impulsive. Her financial irresponsibilities is also very prominent throughout the first act. Nora, clearly exhibits her irresponsibility by overpaying the delivery boy, who is aiding her to bring the Christmas tree inside the house, and also by spending the money that her husband is promised to have, within the next three months, with his new job as a bank manager.. Furthermore, Nora visibly shows to have little to no personality of her own and seems a little vapid as she does not protest against her husband’s constant teasing and relentless jokes towards her, as he expresses on this line, “Has my little spend-thrift been out throwing money around again?” (page 785) and she …show more content…
Torvald wishes to give Krogstad’s position to Kristine Linde, Nora’s childhood friend who recently became a widow and is pleading for a job due to her financial situation. Krogstad, fearfull for losing his job at the bank, tries to blackmail Nora over her fraudulent business by saying, “Mrs. Helmer, obviously you haven’t the vaguest idea of what you’ve involved yourself in…if I introduce this paper in court, you’ll be judged according to law.” (page 804). In Nora’s dream world, her heroistic action would be paid off by a wealthy dying man who would sign all of his funds to her right before his death. Throughout act one, Nora lives in a perfect world where she is being taken care of by Torvald. As a result of her passivity, he is very possessive of her, and frequently adds the “my” modifier to all the pet names he calls her. The relationship between Torvald and Nora is more like father and daughter than husband and wife. She moans at Torvald, exhibits lack of judgment, does not think about the consequences of her childlike actions, and immaturely responds unpleasant thoughts and