Then when sat down Nora brings up the fact that Mrs Linde is a widow and that Mrs Linde looks paler thinner and older.
This shows Nora is a bit self centred but also doesn’t always think before she says things.
We learn that Mrs Linde really isn’t that upset as her late husband left her nothing all his money was gone. The only reason she married him in the first place was because he had money and Christine would be able to look after her mother and brothers if she married him and when he died she would have been able to inherit but hasn’t.
Her brothers now have jobs and her mother has died so she hasn’t got to look after them anymore which leaves her free.
Then Mrs Linde brings up how she needs a job and would like to work for Helmer .Nora will try her best to help her out.
Then Nora explains about her situation when Helmer was ill and she had to secretly borrow the money for their holiday from someone in order to save Helmers life. Helmer thinks Nora borrowed the money from her father but instead she lied and then two days later her father died. Leaving no one suspicious about where she really got the money.
“Helmer is so proud of being a man-it’d be so painful and humilitating for him to know that he owed anything to me.”
This shows that Nora respects his status as a man.
Then Mrs Linde asks how Nora has been able to pay back this debt to the lender. Nora explains that she has only been able to pay little bits at a time because of the money shes been able to save from the money Helmer has given her to spend on herself. Krogstad then enters he is an employer of Helmers. Nora starts to get nervous as he comes in. Mrs Linde asks who the man who entered was. Nora replies Krogstad and asks if Mrs Linde knows him. Mrs Linde says “I used to know him- some years ago. He was a solicitor’s clerk in our town, for a while. They then go into conversation about him
Dr Rank then appears from Helmers study and Nora introduces Mrs Linde to Rank. They talk, then Helmer enters and Nora mentions Mrs Linde and how good at office work. She is hinting to Helmer that Mrs Linde wants a job.
Then Dr Rank Mrs Linde and Helmer go downstairs the Nurse and children enter. Krogstad then enters again and Nora hushes the children away. She is tense as they are talking about the debt that Nora owes Krogstad for taking her husband abroad. He asks Nora to persuade Helmer to let him keep his job as he is suspcious of Mrs Linde taking his place. It comes out also that Nora borrowed £250 pounds and Krogstad wants it back soon. Also he has found out that Nora has forged her fathers signature on the form for borrowing money. Nora tries to lie her way through it but Krogstad already knows too well that she is lying. After some tension Krogstad leaves and Helmer enters, they talk about the fancy dress ball.
Act Two
Nora is alone, worrying about whether Krogstad will tell her husband Helmer about the money. The nurse brings in Nora’s
Costume for the ball. Nora has decided to stay away from the children for a while.
Mrs Linde arrives and helps Nora mend her costume. They talk about Dr Rank and how he has a spinal disease inherited
By his father from his sexua past. Mrs Linde suspects that Dr Rank could have been the person to lend Nora the money.
Helmer then comes home and Nora and Helmer talk about krogstad Nora is determined for Krogstad not to tell Helmer
about the borrowed money and tries to persuade Helmer to let Krogstad keep his job “squirrel would do lots of pretty
tricks for you if you granted her wish”. Nora is willing to do anything to stop Helmer dissmissing Krogstad, but Helmer
says Krogstad must go.
Helmer then writes a letter of dismissal to Krogstad. Nora is in a state of panic. Helmer senses Nora is anxious about
something and tells her things will be fine. He also promises to protects always and be there, which later on is an
important subject. Dr Rank then enters Nora and Rank talk. They talk for a while about his fathers sexual diseases and how unfair it was for him to have passed it on to Rank. Nora then playfully flirts with Rank to find out about his
financial situation. When Rank tell her he is broke she then goes off him and becomes a bit embarrassed about the
flirting. Rank tells Nora that he has always loved her and Nora takes it the wrong way. Being young and rather immature
Nora sees it as a game. The maid then enters with krogstads visiting card Nora becomes Very anxious and scared again.
Nora sends Rank in Helmers study and insists they talk together while Nora speaks to Krogstad. Krogstad has not come
To expose her secret, but to blackmail Helmer instead. Nora is contemplating suicide Krogstad advises strongly that Nora
Doesn’t. He then leaves and drops a letter in the post box of Helmers office.
Mrs Linde then re enters to find Nora looking as if she has seen a ghost. Nora points out the letter to Mrs Linde she then
Realises that it was Krogstad that lent Nora the money. Mrs Linde leaves to try and prevent Krogstad from telling Helmer
Nora tries to get the letter out the box. She tells Helmer she must learn the tarantella her dance for the ball and He goes
Through it with her. She starts to dance widly like its her last dance before she dies reflecting the way she feels.
Helmer then is distracted from opening the mail box with the letter inside.
Left alone Nora reveals she has only 31 hours to live.
Act Three
Dance music can be heard from upstairs the ball is going on.
Mrs Linde is anxiously waiting for Krogstad to arrive. She explains to him how hard it was to leave him in the past because he
had no money and she needed to support her mother and two brothers that’s why she left and married another man. Krogstad
explains how devastated he was after she left and is still hiding certain feelings towards her. Mrs Linde asks if Krogstad would
ever take her back he accepts and they try to take the letter that Krogstad wrote to Helmer back. While upsatirs Nora doent
want to leave the party she is still dreading the letter in the mail box. When Helmer goes to fetch some candles Mrs Linde finds
Nora and explains Nora has nothing to be scared of with things concerning Krogstad. Helmer then gets Nora home and tries to
Make sexual advances towards her. She doesn’t want to and Helmer then gets annoyed and goes to check his mail box.
In it is also a letter with a black cross on it from Rank. It explains he is going to die soon.
Left alone in Helmers study Nora panics then Helmer enters demanding to know about the letter. He is mad with Nora and
basically disowns her. He tells her she is stupid and that his reputation would be ruined if all got out. After Helmer sees
Krogstads I.O.U he believes everything will be alright but theyre not.
Nora realises that in her time of need that Helmer wasn’t there for her and that he is not right for her. She must
Experience life for herself and will never get the chance to with Helmer. She says the kids would be better off with the nurse
And she needs to live a life independently. She then leaves Helmer and the children.