Nora is a very complex character. She is perceived as the doll in her husband’s doll house. However, over the course of the play she changes from the doll, to a more independent person. Nora plays the part of the doll at first, then we see that she is manipulative, secretive, and ultimately strong in the end. Nora participates in the idea of her being her husband’s doll. At the beginning of the play, her husband Torvald is always calling her nicknames that are belittling. When Torvald comes into the play, he refers to Nora by saying, “Is that my little lark twittering out there?, Is that my squirrel rummaging around?, When did my squirrel get in?, Are your scatterbrains off again?” (185). Throughout their opening conversation, when Torvald is calling her these things, she replies with “Yes, whatever you say, Torvald., Hm, if you only knew what expenses we larks and squirrels have, Torvald.” (186-187) She plays along with her husband calling her these things and accepts her …show more content…
Nora tries to persuade Torvald to give Krogstad his job back so that she can keep her secret about borrowing the money. She tells Torvald, “You know, there isn’t anyone who has your good taste- and I want so much to look well at the costume party. Torvald, couldn’t you take over and decide what I should be and plan my costume?” (210). This is her way of manipulating Torvald into thinking of her as his little squirrel and her trying to slip a good note in for Krogstad but she is shot down. Later in the play Nora tries her same manipulative actions. “If your little squirrel begged you, with all her heart and soul, for something-?, Your squirrel would scamper about and do tricks, if you’d only be sweet and give in.” (216). She again is trying to persuade him with her manipulation by using his words of my sweet little squirrel; however, it does not work. These statements from Nora shows how she is trying to manipulate her husband into giving Krogstad his job