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A Doll House

with sewing job. Since there were so many women that knew how to sew, that meant that there was not a demand for them, so they didn't have to pay the women that much. If she did find a job, it may not pay well being that her level of education was not as high as most men in the workforce. If Nora were to leave Torvald, she would more than likely become someone else's doll. Nora was a doll all her life, first to her father then to Torvald. Nora knew of nothing else but being a doll. Nora would act like a child to get what she needed. She would allow Torvald to call her pet names like "squirrel","Is that my squirrel rummaging around"(Ibsen, 1240), "lark", "spendthrift", and "little bird." "Nora was definitely a care free woman, just like a lark, and Torvald refers to her as such."(Gladstone, gladstone.uoregon.edu) "On the other hand, Nora must be some sort of scrounge, because Torvald also refers to her as his "little squirrel."(Gladstone, gladstone.com) She would even use sex to get what she wanted. "Her insipidity, her dollishness, comes from the incessant repression of her family life. Nora has been spoon-fed everything she has needed in life. Never having to think has caused her to become dependant on others." (Thomas, cyberessays.com)I feel that even though Nora might have felt that she was making the right decision in leaving Torvald, there were many things that she should have put into consideration. Instead of just leaving before getting a chance to weigh her options. When people are mad they do things out of haste. When she left, she probably realized what all she had done, and asked Torvald to take her back....

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