Nora.
I am not speaking about business matters.
I say that we have never sat down in earnest together to try and get at the bottom of anything. - P105
Nora.
It is perfectly true, Torvald.
When I was at home with papa, he told me his opinion about everything, and so I had the same opinions;
and if I differed from him I concealed the fact, because he would not have liked it.
He called me his doll-child, and he played with me just as I used to play with my dolls.
And when I came to live with you-- - P106
When I look back on it, it seems to me as if I had been living here like a poor woman--just from hand to mouth.
I have existed merely to perform tricks for you, Torvald.
But you would have it so.
You and papa have committed a great sin against me.
It is your fault that I have made nothing of my life. - P106
Nora.
No, only merry.
And you have always been so kind to me.
But our home has been nothing but a playroom.
I have been your doll-wife, just as at home I was papa‘s doll-child; and here the children have been my dolls.
I thought it great fun when you played with me, just as they thought it great fun when I played with them.
That is what our marriage has been, Torvald. - P107
Nora.
No, I don‘t. But now I am going to try.
I am going to see if I can make out who is right, the world or I. - P110
NORA: That our life together would be a real wedlock. Goodbye. [She goes out through the hall.]
HELMER: [Sinks down on a chair at the door and buries his face in his hands.]
Nora! Nora! [Looks round, and rises.] Empty. She is gone. [A hope flashes across his mind.]
The most wonderful thing of all—?
[The sound of a door shutting is heard from below.] - P110
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