A Doll’s House : Minor Characters
“The supporting characters are important in themselves because they face the same type of problems…”(Urban “Parallels”). Minor characters do a fantastic job of dropping hints to the major themes at the end of any play. Nora’s father, Mrs. Linde’s husband, Nora’s children, Krogstad’s children, and Anne Marie, the minor characters in A Doll’s House, play their roles perfectly in supporting and shadowing the main characters and themes of the play.
The first minor character who comes along in the story is Nora’s father. The role of Nora’s father is to support who Nora supposedly is as a person. For example, Nora seems to let money, “slip through [her] fingers…Just like [her] father,” according to Torvald (Ibsen 283). Another aspect of Nora’s life with her father was how he treated her as if she were an empty-headed doll. Torvald treats Nora during their marriage as an empty-headed wife, which is exactly how Nora’s dad treated her as a......
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