Act I

In "A Doll's House," Act I we were able to meet most of the characters if not all of them that are in the play. We were able to meet the main character in the play which is Nora. Nora is a person who makes herself not seem as smart as she really is, she hides her feelings and thoughts from her husband Torvald. Nora acts like a very jauntily person when she is talking about herself with her friend, Mrs. Kristina Linde. Mrs. Linde is a friend of Nora who is now a widow and has come to see Nora and Torvald to see if she could get a job at the bank that Torvald works at. Torvald actually just got a promotion of bank manager at the bank where he works. Nora has a weird relationship with her husband, it seems to be more of a father daughter relationship. He would always say,"Little Nora, are you really going to let that happen?" He would always treat her like a little girl.

Later on in the story, Nora get a visit from Krogstad who was a lawyer who had a position at the bank that Torvald worked at. He was a afraid that he was intolerable compared to Mrs. Linde. He thought that if Nora persuaded Torvald to give Mrs. Linde a job, he would lose his position and would be replaced by her. He threatens Nora that he will tell Torvald and everyone else he knows that he was the one that gave her money and that in order to get the money, she forged her fathers signature who was actually dead when the signature was dated, that's how Krogstad found out. So he told her to convince Torvald to let him keep his position or he will tell that secret. Soon Torvald comes back after Krogstad leaves and he talks to her to see if she is okay and she tells her what Krogstad has done in the past in terms of crimes. He says to her,"I tell you, it'd be quite impossible for me to work with hi; when I'm near people like that, I actually feel physically ill." The ironic thing about what he said to Nora is that she lied and she is with him most of the time. She is in excruciating emotional pain because she doesn't know what she will do.