To be very honest, even after having read only about fifteen pages of the play, I really don’t like Nora. In fact, if I were to come across someone like that in real life, I would probably avoid them to the best of my ability. Her character is just childish and annoying if I were to say so myself, and completely money obsessed. She’s quite the materialist, and this is very evident in the scene where her husband, Torvald, takes out his wallet and asks her what he’s got in his hand. Nora quickly turns around and exclaims “Money!”. This shows that all of her thoughts and ambitions are consistently centred around money.

Another thing that annoys me about her is the way that she makes conversation with people. Her long lost friend Mrs. Linde comes to pay a visit and after a few minutes of general greetings she starts going on about herself. She really comes across as narcissistic, and when she keeps apologising to Mrs. Linde for talking about herself for too long, frankly I think that was a really insincere apology on her part. Not only that, but she keeps coming back to the detail that she made some sort of “adult transaction” all by herself. Clearly she’s just a child trying to put on adult size shoes. All she wants to accomplish is that she can be taken seriously too. But in my perspective, it does the opposite and just makes her look like a complete fool.

Clearly I’m not Nora’s biggest fan, but if she starts making mature decisions and thinks before she says anything not after, I think there’s room for some serious character development.

Nora in her natural habitat.