Please Nora, do not pity me, I believe that pity is the worst feeling humans are able to express. I want to leave this world in peace and always be remembered like a man, who saved lives, and souls, someone with honor and dignity, everyone was able to feel affection towards, but the greatest feeling ever, gratitude. I cannot tell you in words how I feel right now. It is impossible, I doubt the best writer on the world could ever describe my heart with the best chosen words. All I can say is that my life hangs from a string, which may brake any moment now. I doubt you can imagine how insecure I am feeling right now. But trust me when I say, that these words are real, they come from my weak, but loyal heart, and that is all that matters in times like these.
There is so much to be thankful for, and so much I did not get to do. I can not imagine what would have bee11n of me I had not met your family. Because you have replaced my own. You game me a place on your table, a chair in the studio, and a piece of your hearts. This is why I want you, Nora, to have my money. I would not want anyone else to keep it. Use it for the kids, but yourself a dress, or make Torvald a very nice dinner, fix anything that needs to be fixed in your house, in your relationship. That is my last wish. I need you to know how much I appreciate you, and now that I am gone, this is the only way I have found to let you know how much you really mean to me.
I have an enormous respect for you, and for Torvald, he has been there fore me whenever I have needed him to, he has stretched his hand in times of trouble, so I have never ever dreamed of hurting or offending him. Nor have I ever wanted to feel what I have felt all this time for you. Although, I must say I am fairly confused. All these years of going over to your great home, and having you there, talking to me, has made me wonder, if your flirting has been honest, from your heart, or just a hobby you have created, because of the trust we feel for each other, and due to the fact that Torvald has never been a very affective human being, nor sensible to the desires a woman as sensitive and delicate as you might feel. But before I am gone, I want you to know, that it felt just like a flirt to me, and I do not know what it was to you, and I was never able to bring myself to ask such an embarrassing and personal question. I hope that it did not mean anything else to you, and that I am not hurting you now. I have always considered you a very good looking woman, but I have never felt anything apart from gratitude, and care for you. I thought I would say that, just to avoid leaving any unfinished businesses here.
I ask you Nora, please, do not come searching for me. I do not want you, or anyone for the matter of fact, to see me in the state I am today. As I said before, I want everyone in this town to remember the old me. In this letter you will also find the paper, saying that now you own my properties, all of them, make yourself at home. I have already arranged a man to come pick my body in a time period of a week or so, so that nobody, and I repeat, nobody sees my decomposing self. I think it is the right thing to do, and I do not think it is not too much to ask for. Please do not deny me my last wish, it is wrong and unnecessary to do that to a dying man. Let me go in peace, and I will be waiting for you in heaven my dear Nora.
Yours Faithfully
Rank
Abstract
For this course work I have chosen to do a letter written by Doctor Rank and directed to Nora. This letter has the simple purpose to explain what has been happening in the last section of the play, when he is going to die, and he wants Nora to know and understand the situation he is going through. So that when she sees that in his will all this fortune has been inherited by her and Torvald, she will not be surprised. This letter also intends to put Doctor’s Rank dying wish in paper, as in a way to make sure that it will be fulfilled, due to the fact that he has a lot of respect and trust towards Nora and Torvald.
