things. Not only that but if Nora left and then later on down the road decided to enter back into the children's lives, they might have resentment towards her. Another reason why Nora shouldn't leave her children is because Torvald may one day decide to remarry. "She needs to be more to her children than an empty figurehead."(Thomas cyberessay.com) The children's new mother might try to take the place of Nora. If she were to succeed, the children might not remember Nora. But on the other hand maybe she wouldn't succeed in taking Nora's place, and that would be very hard on the children as well. Nora was around at a time when women weren't considered equal to men, so it would be hard for her to get a job, if she could find one at all. "The mere fact that Nora's well-intentioned action is considered illegal reflects woman's subordinate position in society. It can be suggested that woman have power to choose which rules to follow at home, but not in the business world, thus indicating her subordinateness."(Thomas, cyberessays.com)If Nora were to look for a job she would probably hear a sexist remark like, "shouldn't you be at home raising the children." "Ibsen saw women's proper role as motherhood, and motherhood only."(Frank Magil, 1572) It is hard enough in the new millennium for a women to get a good job to support herself, let alone in 1879, when this story took place. If Nora were to have stayed with Torvald, he could have provided her with everything that she needed or wanted. Torvald would have done anything in his power to make sure that Nora was happy.Another reason that she would not be able to get a job is that she had no skills. The one thing that she could do was sew. That probably would not land her a job at that time though because many women were able to sew around this period. Sewing was considered a women's job, so that meant that most of the women that went out looking for jobs more than likely ended up...
