We have just recently finished Act II of A Doll House and in Act II things started to get very hot and steamy. Everyone had something to say about the other person and alot of people have confessed there desire for someone. In Act II the characters attitudes have changed and the mood of the play has also changed. The things that happened in Act I changed alot in Act II and there were alot of surprises ahead and there were surprises that no one seen coming. Nora is now seen as being  flirty and she is still naive and condescending and she is still a sneaky housewife. Nora big secret is still has not gone public and now only three people know about it and Torvald has no clue about what is going on in his house. There are alot of things that he doesn't know about that is going on in his house such as the flirty and relationship between Nora and Dr.Rank is very intolerable because she is a married women and a "happily" married women should not be flirting with her husband's best friend. She should not be asking him if a certain pair of silk stockings looks good on her. She also almost had the nerve of asking her husband best friend if she can borrow some money to payoff Krogstad who is manipulator and still likes to blackmail people just so he can get what he wants. Dr.Rank also confessed his love to Nora and I personally think that the two of them would be a very nice couple and Nora didn't really see Dr.Rank's confession coming her way.                             But if you ask me, I would have seen that coming from a mile away because why are you doing all of that flirting just to play with someone's heart and just for it to be destroyed. Nora told Dr. Rank You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with (Ibsen196). With that being said she would really rather be with Torvald because he reminds her of her father because he is very controlling, demanding and over protective. T-T Through the Tunnel because Jerry's mother was very over protective and it was hard for her to let her son go off on his own and do things without her. Rather than being with someone she loves who is Dr.Rank because she would like for someone to boss her around and to demanding her to do something. Now Dr.Ranks heart is broken and he really doesn't doesn't know how to respond to Nora's reaction to his confession. That's just what misled me. You're a mystery to me... I've sometimes thought you'de as soon be with me as with Helmer (Ibsen195).                                         Krogstad who is very disreputable and Nora had a conversation which was about Helmer firing him and how he had already written a note telling the whole truth about what Nora had done to Torvald. Krogstad who knows that he was fired by receiving a letter from Torvald himself telling him that he was let go tells Nora Your husband can't love you very much can he? He knows that I can expose you, and he dares to (Ibsen197).  Nora who stood up for herself and also her husband didn't believe anything of what Krogstad had to say. But Krogstad just kept going at it said Well, no- I didn't really think so ; it wouldn't be at all like worthy Torvald Helmer to have so much courage (Ibsen197). Mrs.Linde first thought that Nora borrowed the money from Dr. Rank and that the two of them were having an affair but when Nora told her that they weren't Kristina didn't really believe what Nora was telling her. But when she was told the truth that Krogstad was the one who indeed gave Nora the money to borrow and when Nora told her about Krogstad's plan to tell Helmer because he has fired him and about the letter that he wrote to Torvald stating what Nora had done which was forging a signature which was her fathers and borrowing money from Krogstad. Now that Mrs.Linde has heard that she wants to talk to Krogstad and convince him to take back the letter so that the truth won't be revealed. There was a time when he would gladly have done anything for me (Ibsen202).
        Nora who is now terrified because of the decision that she has had with Krogstad and is hoping that Mrs.Linde will have some success with convincing Krogstad to take back the letter she is trying to keep Torvald occupied so that he won't check the mailbox and read the letter that Krogstad has left behind. T-S I wouldn't have to be so worried about my husband finding out something what shouldn't have been done because we would share our problems with eachother and talk them out as a couple instead of hiding them and being secretive and sneaking around. So the only thing Nora could do was to ask her husband if he could help her with her tarantella dance for the dance that they would be attending the next day. But of course Torvald was excited to hear his wife say that she needed his help so his response was I promise This evening I'll be wholly and entirely at your service - you poor helpless little creature! Ah, but first, while I think of it, I must just. With all the excitement Nora was experiencing she had decided to have a huge festival for dinner and Torvald wasn't to happy about what Nora was doing because he thought that it was to much to have for dinner. At then end of Act II Nora has decided to commit suicide because she thinks that would be the best thing to do for herself. T-W With Nora trying to commit suicide it reminds me of Law & Order because she wants to put herself in a dangerous situation and wants to put herself in harms way.
                             


















     What do you think is going on here? Who do you think this is?



1. Do you think that Nora will go on with committing suicide?

2. Do you think that Nora should have chosen Dr.Rank? Or Do you think that she should stay with Torvald?

3. If you were Mrs.Linde would you have helped out Nora?

4. Do you think that Nora and Torvald's marriage will last?