Doll_House

Doll House Every story has a theme, the central meaning, or dominant idea in a literary work. As for the story A Doll House, one of the themes is appearance vs. reality. In the beginning of the story, all of the characters appear one way but by the end of the story, the reality of one another is in a different direction. In A Doll House, Nora and Torvald have put on a mask, as well as their friends, but by the end, everyone finds out the truth about one another. Nora seems to be real spoiled, materialistic, unintelligent, and money hungry to most people, even her close friend Mrs. Linde. “How very kind of you, Nora, to be so concerned over me – doubly kind, considering you really know so little of life’s burdens yourself.” Nora appears to be the homemaker that has no idea what goes on in the real world, when in reality she does know a great deal. Nora took her husband’s life into her own hands. She realized that he was going to die if she could not get him to take out a loan for them to stay in the nora, torvald, one, story, just, reality, out, loan, house, way, take, seems, real, people, money, little, everything, everyone, doll, about, world, wife, vs, trying, things, theme, taste, really, own, now, never, materialistic, lived, life