1. How does Nora choose what to say to her husband and what is to keep hidden?
Nora only tells her husband what he wants to hear. In the beginning of the play Nora acts like his “toy”. Trovald treats Nora like she is a possession to him. She does not realize that this is how she is being treated; she doesn’t understand that Trovald is treating her like a child, like someone he has complete control over. The only thing that she wants to do is to please him. She always does the right thing and says the right thing. She wants him to be happy even if his happiness leads to her unhappiness, for example when the letter comes to Trovald from Krogsted. Nora would rather kill herself to save Trovald’s reputation than to allow him to be morally harmed by what she had done or to be blackmailed by Krogsted.
In the first act Nora lies to her husband about eating pastries. He doesn’t want her to spend too much money, especially on pastries or snacks such as macaroons. To her this......
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