Act III: The Finale

we're finally here, the end of the dramatic play, A Doll House. It was a pretty good ending, and it seemed to fit right. Nora, the main character, finally makes a stand and leaves Torvald. She decides to give up the life her father and Torvald made her live, and I believe her decision was very right. Nora proves to be an interesting character throughout the story, dynamic even, she makes a radical change in personality(for the better) at the end of the story.

When Torvald finally finds out Nora's dirty little secrets, needless to say, he loses it. He goes on a rant on how Nora has ruined his reputation, how she is morally corrupt, and even unfit to raise his children! Then he opened up the 2nd document, the one Krogstad sent after Mrs. Linde convinced him. Instantly, Torvald "forgave" his wife, taking back all those hurtful things he said to her, saying he said them in them out of anger. The reader can obviously tell how frivolous he takes Nora and their marriage. Knowing Nora, I believed that she would simply take this treatment, but in an astonishing act of defiance, she stood up to Torvald.

I'm sure many of the ladies reading Torvalds following reaction were very pleased with how pathetic he sounded as begged and pleaded with Nora to stay and she simply brushed him off as if their years of marriage had been nothing at all. So at the end of the play, Nora departs on her own way, to live her own life, not one the people in her life think she should be living.